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Does anyone else intentionally have no ISP-provided Wi-Fi at home and instead ration mobile data for Internet access? (self.frugal)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Flagstaff to c/[email protected]

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I've had no ISP-provided Internet access since Feb. 2023 or so and, while it's been a pain at times, I still haven't caved into returning to the evil monopoly that is Spectrum, so far, and probably won't for as long as I can't land a remote job. ArrowDL, while not perfect, has been pretty good at download management for the most part in conjunction with mobile data-hotspotting.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use pda dot net. Daisy chaining phones sounds interesting

[–] Flagstaff 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, I had tried PDA, too. I can't remember why, but I think because it worked identically to TetherFi, I returned to TF probably because it's open-source. (But with my old phone's hotspot feature getting miscategorized as normal mobile data usage, I just treat a second phone as a hotspot, haha—and not as primary due to its inferior stats as an older, budget phone, ironically enough.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ok cool, I'll check that out too. Thanks!