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Can tethering one day replace WiFi?

Joelgp83 said:
I'm curious -- are you able to turn on hotspot and then set your phone down in a central location in the house and have it cover everything in your house, or are you just carrying it in your pocket?

Being centralized would let you have it plugged in all the time, no battery drain due to the wifi wakelock. :D
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I can, no problem. :D It likely depends on the size of your house or apartment or caravan or yurt and what the walls are made from.
 
I'm now getting into publishing videos to YouTube. My first video is 12.5 GB large. Could one imagine uploading that on a 3G connection.
 
mikedt said:
You could, however if the carrier is charging you say $10 per gigabyte. Think the video had better be worth it to justify the cost. $$$$
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For some ya. For me, boost Mobile says that I have unlimited data. Some users reported using over 200GB in a month.
 
My father replaced his home internet with his sprint s4 because of the LTE connection pulls 35 down and fios is too expensive for his usage.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
For some ya. For me, boost Mobile says that I have unlimited data. Some users reported using over 200GB in a month.
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It's throttled after a certain amount isn't it, like 2 or 3GB. You might be able to upload your 12.5GB video to YouTube, but it could take a few days though? Also does Boost allow tethering?


BTW uploading a 12.5GB video to YouTube? What are you doing, 4K or something? Would YT even accept a video file that large, I thought they had a limit on maximum file sizes. Think most videos I've ever viewed would be 1-3GB maximum, for a 1 hour TV show or something.
 
Boost, Net10, and Straight Talk all throttle you after the first 2GB, and then you get a 512kbps down rate. Hardly usable beyond email checks. Unlimited data is overrated if one cant stream video or play online games.

All last weekend i streamed endless Netflix content. Still have well over 7Gb left.
 
mikedt said:
It's throttled after a certain amount isn't it, like 2 or 3GB. You might be able to upload your 12.5GB video to YouTube, but it could take a few days though? Also does Boost allow tethering?


BTW uploading a 12.5GB video to YouTube? What are you doing, 4K or something? Would YT even accept a video file that large, I thought they had a limit on maximum file sizes. Think most videos I've ever viewed would be 1-3GB maximum, for a 1 hour TV show or something.
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Yes boost does have tethering. And I was uploading a two hour 1080 p video to my channel. YouTube accept videos up to 10 hours long that are up to 20 gigabytes large.
 
i think you need a specific type of YouTube account to get that benefit. on mine it is limited to 20 minute long videos, like Facebook.

As for tethering for that, while it works well for Netflix, Amazon Video, online radio, etc, for some reason the upload speeds/latency and ping rates are horrible. uploading photos to Facebook over 8 MP is a lesson in patience. DNS lookup times on some sites time out and give 'cannot display website' errors at random. let's say it's basically the same connection one would get with Satellite internet, but at 1/3 the price.
 
nickdalzell said:
i think you need a specific type of YouTube account to get that benefit. on mine it is limited to 20 minute long videos, like Facebook.

As for tethering for that, while it works well for Netflix, Amazon Video, online radio, etc, for some reason the upload speeds/latency and ping rates are horrible. uploading photos to Facebook over 8 MP is a lesson in patience. DNS lookup times on some sites time out and give 'cannot display website' errors at random. let's say it's basically the same connection one would get with Satellite internet, but at 1/3 the price.
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Oh, my youtube account lets me upload up to 20 gb and 10 horus long. Maybe our accounts are different?
 
Mine is a standard, free account. Login with Google credentials and go.

It has a 20 minute long limit. Same limit is why some videos have a 'part 1', 'part 2', and so on.

Perhaps you pay or have a developer account?
 
nickdalzell said:
Mine is a standard, free account. Login with Google credentials and go.

It has a 20 minute long limit. Same limit is why some videos have a 'part 1', 'part 2', and so on.

Perhaps you pay or have a developer account?
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No, not paying anything for my youtube account. It's a free youtube account. I think it maybe because I'm on longer and you may have been on youtube com and I have been uploading videos periodically accoubt.
 
i dunno. all i know is i got the same size/time limit as Facebook. i can, however, upload any amount of video no matter the GB onto Google+. kinda odd, but oh well.

Looking up i just found out that YouTube only has unlimited size videos (as in no limit) if you pay for a Developer account.
 
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