You are not going to get 300Mbt all day long continuously off a cell network. It just won't happen. It's hard enough with landline broadband but at least they know what's going on and can manage it some. With mobile you can have a heavy user move into the cell you are on and move out and that will impact your bandwidth.
My Comcast Business cell plan is $17 a month, this is limited data though unlimited calling and text. 2GB I think. I've never exceeded it. Their unlimited plans are more expensive of course but not that much. And I have never been disconnected on data from it. In fact I've even tethered a laptop to my S9 and driven from Hillsboro to PDX with the lappy on and logged in over a VPN. Probably passed through a dozen cell boundaries never been disconnected on data. They use Verizon as a backbone. Their residential cell stuff is sold under Xfinity of course. You are free to pay a lot of money for cellular service if you want. But if you research what an MVNO is and how modern cell networks work you can save a ton of money. They all use the same towers and the reliability is exactly the same from the same tower. It's all branding nowadays. These router-only devices from Verizon use the EXACT same cellular network and backbone my cell phone does. You just pay a lot more money for a neutered cell phone that has voice and texting cut off of it. And a pretty plastic box with feet on it and a power cord instead of a cell charger. What people often don't realize with MVNOs is they sometimes will change carriers. Consumer Cellular for example switched from TMobile's towers to ATT's towers. So a lot of CC phones out at the coast slowly started losing reliability, signal, etc. Replacing the sim with a new one fixes that. You just had to call CC for one. The same issue happened with Verizon a few years ago as well and they aren't an MVNO they just contracted with different towers. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of wes Sent: Monday, March 6, 2023 4:51 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@pdxlinux.org> Cc: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic <p...@lists.pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Verizon towers for internet On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 4:23 PM Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@portlandia-it.com> wrote: > It works but of course it's very easy to go over 300Mbt and then they > charge overage fees which can be quite high > the 300mb refers to a service speed, not a transfer limit. there may well be a transfer limit, but it will be at least somewhat reasonable. > I always ask people doing this why don' t you just get an unlimited > data cell plan and tether to your phone. > this can work, but even for fairly tech savvy people, this often results in a fairly low reliability connection. phones will take any opportunity to drop connections and don't re-establish automatically. additionally, this is usually more expensive than a data-only plan. -wes
