[Electronics-talk] Mobile hot spot question

[James Aldrich]

Hi George and all,

Using your IPhone as a hot spot is very slow indeed especially if you are on a 3G connection.  LTE may be better but I think your internet through cable or DSL is much better!  If you are simply sending Email, doing facebook or twitter, this hot spot through the carrier may be adequate.  Listening to audio is another matter! The phone hot spot is not desirable for audio or video, or I should say, it wasn't good here! 

Jim 

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> On Sep 12, 2014, at 3:23 PM, George via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Linda,
> 
> I'll answer to your questions and give you my advice based on my latest experience.
> 
>> I want to make sure I have the proper understanding of what a mobile hot spot is before I give up my landline and internet service.
> It's just a wi-fi connection via your smart device or your iPhone.  Your iPhone will act as a Wi-fi transmitter and will give access to the internet via your iPhone internet connection if you allow it.
> It's a wi-fi connection using your iPhone.
> There are much better ways to use wi-fi, by buying a small device that you can connect to the modem of your internet cable; you will have many more ports and no more charges than the price of the device, probably $30 or $40.
> 
>> I heard that a smartphone can somehow be connected to my iPad so that I will still be able to use it or my laptop.
> 
> Yes, but you will need to have internet connection on your smart phone and your laptop needs to have wi-fi connectivity. You might have it if your laptop is a rather new one.
> 
>> 
>> Is this tru?  Is it easy to connect to the mobile hot spot?
> Yes, it's easy to connect if you can read the ID and password displayed on your iPhone settings; generally, you'll need them only once for each device: the next time devices probably will connect automatically.
> 
>>  I have never been without a landline, and want to make sure I'm doing the right thing in getting rid of it.
> 
> Well, from my experience, I can't advise you to do that.
> Cable is more secure (it's much more difficult to intersept a line than waves flying in the air), faster (measured in data amount per second between your device and your provider) and more stable (the connection will never be cut no matter the distance from your modem unless you cut the cable) than wi-fi.
> I have recently bought a wi-fi device and stopped tethering: I had to pay a fee each month for tethering.
> My daughter used an iPad and connected to the internet via my wife's iPhone. Her connection would be cut if she is not in a certain distance from the phone. Other electronic devices might interfere, too.
> The main problem was that, in Japan, where we live, they make your connection very slow after you used 7 GB of data and, if you want to have fast internet connection again you have to pay like $20 for each additional GB of data until the end of the month.  The next month you will have fast internet connection until you get to the 7 GB.
> Our daughter used Youtube for a few hours at the beginning of the month and, after that, my wife couldn't use internet comfortably: not only Youtube, but also she had a very bad time even navigating on the internet and sending emails (everything was terribly slow).
> They say that they do that to limit data traffic by waves.  On cable, you'll never have that limitation.
> They might implement some similar restriction in the U.S. some day, or they might have it already, I don't know.
> Also, in case of a natural disaster, internet cable is much reliable; you might become unable to communicate by talking or by email on your smart phone; we had that problem right after the big earthquake and nuclear accident of 2011.  Internet cable worked much better.
> 
> If you want to use tethering, try it first for a few days before getting rid of your internet cable and check with your mobile company about costs before using it.
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> George
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 2:38 AM
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Mobile hot spot question
> 
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I want to make sure I have the proper understanding of what a mobile hot spot is before I give up my landline and internet service.
>> 
>> I heard that a smartphone can somehow be connected to my iPad so that I will still be able to use it or my laptop.
>> 
>> Is this tru?  Is it easy to connect to the mobile hot spot?  Thanks for your assistance.  I have never been without a landline, and want to make sure I'm doing the right thing in getting rid of it.
>> 
>> Linda
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