Comment by explaininjs 10 months ago
As someone who does a ton of networking/routing at the link layer for a day job, I can definitely see why they’re taking measures to reduce bandwidth hogs - to the extent I might actually prefer to be on a network that has taken measures to reduce hogging vs one that has not.
When it really truly matters, like when I have a business need to download huge items in remote areas, the $10/GB+ justifies itself.
> Does anyone offer a tethering plan that's rate limited but not data limited?
T-Mobile in the US; they give you a set amount of high-speed tethering based on your plan, then it rate limits severely until the end of the billing cycle unless you upgrade your plan or buy a a pack of data.
Okay, 600kbps is acceptable. Beats a lot of networks. Things are improving since I last checked.
Though with how happily and loudly they've made 1.5Mbps video excluded from data caps, it would be better if the throttled speed was at least 1.5Mbps.
Verizon after 60GB is 600kbps on 5G/4G but up to 3Mbps on UWB. Pretty reasonable IMO. It’s AT&T that’s the holdout, 128k regardless of plan, after 60GB.
> they’re taking measures to reduce bandwidth hogs
My problem with this is that it's the wrong measure.
There's no good technical reason to shape traffic to a specific rate irrespective of network conditions or capacity. All of the links in the chain support QoS.
Shaping a bandwidth hog to a tier below the rest of the users makes sense, but that's not what's going on.
Ironically, downloading huge items is easy to do without tethering.
And video streaming, probably most people's biggest bandwidth use, fits very well on phones.
Does anyone offer a tethering plan that's rate limited but not data limited?