Another drawback might be that you can’t access your home server or desktop while on the road. You can't configure port sharing or a VPN endpoint like you can on your landline router.
> Am 06.10.2023 um 06:58 schrieb Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com>: > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 11:15 AM stan via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> >> I recently received an offer from T-mobile to use their 5G network as >> my main internet access. It was contingent on a contract for phone >> with them, but the price and speed for internet was competitive. Has >> anyone done this using fedora, or I suppose, any other system? Horror >> stories or kudos? The main drawback I could see was that it was a lot >> like early cable, where the bandwidth depended on the number of users >> on your branch. If it was just me, I have the whole pipe, and it would >> be awesome. Ten others and me, and not so hot as we shared the bandwidth >> among us. > > I used T-Mobile and a hotspot for internet access while on-prem at a > customer's site in New York City (Manhattan) back around 2011 to about > 2012 or 2013. It was a 4G network back then. I used the hotspot to > avoid using the customer's network, and its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) > program. > > T-Mobile regularly dropped my data connections when the network got > bogged down (presumably with voice calls). > > Your internet and data traffic on a 5G connection will likely be a > second class citizen with no quality of service guarantees. In fact, > it probably won't even meet 5G standards, which I believe is 20 GB/s > burst and 1 GB/s download speed. If I recall correctly, there are > loopholes built into the marketing so carriers can claim they provide > the standard even though they don't meet the specification. Or that's > what I found back in the 4G days. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Peter Boy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy p...@fedoraproject.org Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) Fedora Server Edition Working Group member Fedora Docs team contributor and board member Java developer and enthusiast _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
