Are people not aware that 5G unlimited plans are cheap and plentiful now?
Find a MVNO that works for you and enjoy all the data.
What’s your pick/recommendations? Mint mobile has been nice with excellent coverage by T-Mobile.
Not here in Canada. The telecoms have a huge monopoly that they abuse to jack prices up to ridiculous amounts. 5G + Unlimited is well over 100 CAD where I am.
You’re joking right?
Those are Vidéotron’s prices
And Bell is barely any better.
Canadian telecoms fucking suck.
That’s me when i go out and forgot to turn off wifi.
We are not the same.
Here in europe we turn off the wifi intentionally when at home, since 5G is often faster
In rural UK I have unlimited 4g data and use hotspot for my PC’s internet connection. It’s about the same as the copper line would be so I don’t bother with it.
For Europeans, who don’t understand: In America they have limits on mobile data in single digits of GB.
As a German over 20 I very much understand
I had 400mb a month for years and it was plenty for me (European).
I go through 400mb a DAY
A single song can be half that in lossless hahaha
So why not download it?
Oh I have a 300GB music collection, but I also stream random stuff while I work. My music streaming service has High-Res Lossless and songs range from 100MB to 500+
I also download tons of podcasts and stream hours of video while I work. I use HEAPS of mobile data. I would die if I was limited to a couple gigs hahaha
I guess that can work if you’re basically just texting. But that’s barely enough for 2 youtube videos. I don’t think that qualifies as “plenty” for most people.
I have 1GB/m and rarely use half of it. I just don’t watch YT when I’m outside. And it’s plenty for looking at beans on Lemmy.
Canada too, our telecom companies are… bad
I got into the habit of downloading anything I wanted to watch / read on the bus. That offline reddit app was nice, and even though I don’t need it now I’d probably download a lemmy version of it
I also set up an IFTTT thing back then which would turn off data and turn on wifi based on location
Lol what? That shit is often 10x worse in Europe
What’s worse in Europe? Nothing that has to do with internet access is worse in Europe.
France, Spain, Italy, Greece had fucking terrible mobile data options when I spent time there and speeds were awful, unlimited data plans were unreasonably expensive.
It was like that in many nations until very recently
I pay 18.16 euros for unlimited data calls texts
Laughs in unlimited
This post literally reminded me I had my WiFi turned off and that I needed to turn it back on, thank you stranger.
Alternatively:
>When you watch porn on your phone, but you notice that you are not connected to Wi-Fi.
Meanwhile, here I am with a €5 a month,100GB plan, of which I manage to use hardly less than 10% every month.
Where I live, you can spend triple that amount for just SMS and Calling.
How do people use so much data? I’ve been on 6 hours and I barely use 10gb
6 hours
barely 10GB
what???
Install a couple windows games maybe?
on a phone?
Phones make great hotspots for laptops.
ok but then it wasn’t accidental
I would say I can relate, but even my very first smartphone automatically connected to Wifi
Many people turn WiFi off when leaving the house as they don’t want it randomly trying to connect to other networks.
Then you forget to turn it back on. Although with unlimited data I don’t really care.
What phone are you using that doesnt automatically enable wifi again when at home? Is this not the default? I think all mine had this in the last decade
How does your phone know your home without connection to the wifi?
Because all wifi devices never fully disable themselves. So it just detects the SSID is in range. Or alternatively it could do so by your location (which is also wifi enhanced, hence why they don’t fully disable)
Indeed, there seems to be an option called “intelligent wifi” on Android. Luckily my phone doesn’t have it.
Intelligent wifi is something else i believe, and Samsung only? I’m talking about auto connect which is part of android since version 9. That said, even if you don’t have that function, that doesn’t mean its not passively scanning your wifi environment anyway.
I’m talking about auto connect which is part of android since version 9. That said, even if you don’t have that function, that doesn’t mean its not passively scanning your wifi environment anyway.
I have android 11 and if I turn off my wifi it will stay turned off until I turn it on. And that I wouldn’t want it any other way.
edit: Found the option to disable “wifi scanning to improve location” and did.
