alsoRun：My phone is my Internet

2016-12-6 07:28 AM| 发布者: 星光| 查看: 1538| 评论: 5|原作者: alsoRun

摘要: I bought a townhouse last Feb. It turns out that I have more bills to pay than I anticipated. So the last thing I wanted is to have another bill of Wi-Fi service. So far, I have been depending on my p ...

I bought a townhouse last Feb. It turns out that I have more bills to pay than I anticipated. So the last thing I wanted is to have another bill of Wi-Fi service. So far, I have been depending on my phone as my Internet and I have survived surprisingly well.

First, with a pair of reading glasses, I can browse web on my 5.5 phone with ease and pleasure. Nowadays, most websites have a mobile version, which is usually called m.something.com, for example, m.mitbbs.com and http://m.creaders.net/. In addition, the NEWS app on Windows phone has several hundred mobile-formatted stories at any moment. Another thing I need to mention is that the edge browser on the phone never refused to open any website for me, which is truly amazing.

Of course, a laptop still beats a phone by a thousand miles in web-browsing. I also need to synchronize the files on my laptop in the apartment with my main computer in the office. For this, I just need to use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop. Everything just works as if I had a real Wi-Fi service, only at a slower but totally tolerable speed.

I need to thank T-Mobile, whose "unlimited data plan" gives me 26 Gbytes of data each month. I can watch video and browse web with no worry about data limit at all. In fact, I may even cancel wifi service at my main home after my younger son leaves for college next year.

(This diary is posted on my laptop powered by my phone's hotspot).

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引用 2016-12-9 10:55 AM: alsoRun: T-Mobile limits hotspot from your phone to 3G, good enough for browsing the web but not enough to watch videos. When I need to watch video, I use my p ...
I have been using LTE for 2 years or longer.
you should buy a chromecast then you can cast your phone content to your tv or bigger monitor (HDMI port required). then you enjoy the higher speed (4G).
it also seems tmobile limit hotspotting to 7G total of traffic per month. enough if you do not stream video. I used to share with a friend at 2G a month in Australia for reading emails at home and browsing web. we had to be judicious.

引用 2016-12-8 09:48 PM: waspking: you are making me wonder if i should cancel my comcast and add a line as data. i can simply use an old phone on all the time as hotspot. most of the t ...
T-Mobile limits hotspot from your phone to 3G, good enough for browsing the web but not enough to watch videos. When I need to watch video, I use my phone for 4G speed.

I just read somewhere that the phone's data speed will increase 3 times by 2020. There is hope if we can live to that time.

Note also that some newer phones support T-Mobile extended LTE, which can get much stronger signal than an older phone.

引用 2016-12-8 09:30 PM: you are making me wonder if i should cancel my comcast and add a line as data. i can simply use an old phone on all the time as hotspot. most of the time 4G speed is faster (80-90 mps) than my Comcast (3-60 mps).

that way i will not be paying $75 a month for comcast but pay $150+tax?

引用 2016-12-6 09:41 AM: mist: 真能干。

“the edge browser on the phone never refused to open any website for me, which is truly amazing.”

为什么这么说呢？不是edge的就打不开吗？ ...
I have a Windows 10 phone with Microsoft edge browser. I have no experience with other browsers on mobile.

引用 2016-12-6 09:33 AM: 真能干。

“the edge browser on the phone never refused to open any website for me, which is truly amazing.”

为什么这么说呢？不是edge的就打不开吗？

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