Ask HN: Is it possible to use unlimited LTE as your full-time Internet?

2 points by Zingles 12 years ago | 4 comments

I try to be as frugal as possible. With T-Mobile in the news, the thought came to me if I could cancel my $100/month Comcast, get the $70/month unlimited data T-Mobile plan, and use that as full-time Internet.

Except the unlimited is only the phone and not hot-spot compatible. Or is there a way around that? (routing traffic or something)

loumf 12 years ago |

If the unlimited is for the phone, then it may be illegal to circumvent[1]. Even if not, it's against the terms of service and certainly unethical.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking

Zingles 12 years ago | |

I figured as much. I wish there was a unlimited tethering with the unlimited LTE plan, but with rate limiting. Like limit me to .5-1Mbps on my non-phone devices. I'm not downloading music or videos, or streaming, I just want to browse text websites and code on my MacBook, nothing bandwidth intensive.

loumf 12 years ago | | |

Unfortunately even modern webpages are very bandwidth intensive (by LTE standards) compared to what is usually served up to phones.

sp332 12 years ago |

Does the limitation include USB tethering as well as wifi? I know my Sprint contract allows USB but not wifi.

Edit: Is $100/mo. really the cheapest Comcast option?