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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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] Flagstaff 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Okay, well, that's fine, and I didn't even think it was a personal attack, but the beef I had with your initial comment:

Are you confusing wifi with internet? Wifi is free. It costs nothing. Internet is a different story. You can have wifi without internet, and you can have internet without wifi. They are not the same thing.

... was that you said what not to say, but not what to say instead. So all I can deduce is that you mean for people to say "access to the Internet by means of mobile data instead of Wi-Fi"; is that right?

There, I edited the post title, haha. For what it's worth, I don't think these other Lemmy users should be putting you down to this extent, either.