pros and cons of using 4g mobile hotspot as your primary home internet?

Question

i'm about to cut the cord on my att uverse because the 4g on my tmobile is so much faster, but before I do...is there anything I should be worried about? everything seems to be going really smoothly for constantly daily use for the past few days i've had no problems at all.

Answer 1

@will is right. You better read that fineprint. Here's the problem. Unless you are unlimited the bill will be huge. Now for the worst part: What you don't know is that even if you are unlimited, Tmobile and the others do a cheat. Yeah, they cheat. You get a certain amount of 4g a month once that is used up they throttle you down to 3g or even 2g for the remainder of the billing cycle. Also they do reserve the right to uh 'monitor' your usage. Once they know what you've done, they can charge extra, or even drop you if they want, or just be cruel and throttle you all the time. Why? Because the towers in your area have to service hundreds of Tmobile cutstomers with 4g. If you hog it all, trust me, you will hear about it one way or another. It's a corporation. They make money, not friends. Best luck.

Answer 2

I could not use my phone's Hotspot ability to replace my home internet, because it would not take care of my internet needs, video streaming subscriptions would be impossible after the first movie. And forget more than one person in the household being able to watch a movie OR play first person shooters online.



So unless you do not have an unlimited Hotspot plan "I" would suggest not doing it, and saving your hotspot ability for those times when you don't have any other option (power goes out, out on the road).



The major CON if you don't have an unlimited Hotspot plan, is you will go over without even trying, and it adds up very fast, to the point you will wish it just shut off the second your limit was reached. (as several friends have found out, trying to cut the cable internet cord).

Answer 3

Pros: uhhhh...the only good thing is that you can take it to public places and have your own trusted internet connection.



Cons: not as fast as you think when using it for a computer. Unless you have an unlimited plan, you can run out of data. And you can but cant stream movies. Streaming movies will use an entire G of data within an hour. The data runs on a monthly schedule so you have to wait for the thing to reset, unless you wanna pay a couple dollars for every extra G you use.