Is public WiFi a thing in NY these days?
In Sweden you'd just sit down and use your phone as a proxy. It is usually much faster, and also much safer.
I live in a smaller town. Maybe the crowdiness of Manhattan is the issue?
In Sweden you'd just sit down and use your phone as a proxy. It is usually much faster, and also much safer.
I live in a smaller town. Maybe the crowdiness of Manhattan is the issue?
I use my phone in coffee shops that don't have [acceptable] WiFi. The main drawback is needing to be mindful of phone battery in addition to the laptop battery.
That being said, it's a great resource when you need a space to work at 11am-2pm (when all of the WiFi-offering spots are filled). There are a couple of local coffee shops with no WiFi, that don't forbid laptops – they're usually empty during peak hours.
One would hope such silliness should be illegal.
I just googled it and see that Verizon in the US was successfully sued for blocking tethering .. one would hope that more people take action against companies attempting this.
Using fast.com (Netflix server) I get 56 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up on Verizon with my iPhone 15 Pro Max in Manhattan which is another reason to use WiFi.
On the mobile hotspot settings page it will just show a message with a link to the carriers website instead of the toggle to enable it, I find it really annoying since as you said I don't understand how there would be a difference in what the usage would look like to the carrier and it feels like Apple is imposing a restriction just for the benefit of the carrier that makes the phone less usable.
On the "how they detect it", unless you're using a VPN they can look at the traffic and easy distinguish "computer traffic" from regular "phone traffic".
To me it's weird and so much friction to try figure out wifi Hotspot and password and login. Makes me feel like a homeless poor person, as if I can't pay for my own mobile data.
If you're not noticing a drain on your battery from keeping your hotspot on its because no one is connected to it / using it.
What I find more surprising is that Sweden dropped “unlimited” data plans, I’m not aware of any data plan that is unlimited now. So if you want to do some video calls then I would be looking for wifi.
But yes that is exactly the thing. Except for the security risks it is just not worth the hassle to go through a captive portal sign-on just to find out that the WiFi is so much worse than using your phone.
2017 there were none, I checked. Seems like they're back!
And I've been living in Sweden since 2014, and it was commented on that "they're dissapearing" a few times in the games studio I was working in.
Glad they've been around, but the way you say this seems to indicate that I was lying and there's genuinely no reason for me to do that.
No, I was just saying