What is the difference between cellular data being used on my phone and cellular data being used on my notebook? Data is data.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s a sneaky way of having a bandwidth cap without having a bandwidth cap. Mobile devices have smaller storage, so you’re less likely to use as much bandwidth compared to a laptop. Also a single device going to use less data than multiple devices sharing a hotspot.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      Jokes on them, I have a 512GB micrSD card and I use Termux to archive videos through YT-DLP.

      • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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        7 months ago

        Was just going to say… my phone has 512GB storage and can do direct WiFi file transfer to my computer without a hotspot. All without using the mobile hotspot feature.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      You can burn through a huge amount of data streaming 4K video on your phone without using any storage. You can also plug a 20TB USB hard drive into your phone, connect to a VPN and torrent away.