I note that certain Skinny Mobile plans mention they support Hotspotting. Do the cheaper plans somehow prevent that? What’s to stop me turning on my mobile hotspot from my (non carrier-locked) phone?
Skinny Mobile & Hotspotting
joefish on 30/11/2022 - 19:30
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Usage patterns could be indicative of you hot-spotting perhaps.
I can hotspot off my $16 plan.
I have tons of carry over since working from home.
I always had Hotspot ON when outside with kids phone connected. Never had any issues. Even the weekend free data used to work, but limited to 2gb at max speed i think.
All devices which connect to the internet give out identifying info. If you hotspot the device you are using through the hotspot will identify itself. For instance if you setup a hotspot on your phone and then connect to the internet through that phone using your laptop the isp can easily tell that it's not just the phone connecting. I've been on Skinny $16 plan for some years and they dont' seem to regulate your hotspot usage that I recall.
No problems hot spotting with Skinny use it all the time for multiple hours every day. $16 plans and up all work fine. Even when I use all the high speed data up, the slower speed still works great for most things.
As Robbert said at the top
Skinny do BLOCK Hotspot only when you are using BINGE
I know they block hotspotting when on Data Binge using prepaid plans. Nothing stops you from turning hotspotting on but they know somehow and block the connection until you turn it off.