On Saturday, 28 March 2020 8:29:33 PM AEDT Brian May via luv-main wrote:
Colin Fee via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
In the scramble to get people to, work from home over the past weeks, we discovered three that do not have home internet. They asked us for broadband dogles or modems, to which we said use your phone, data charges are similar etc.
They contacted their respective telcos who all said don't use your phone for this, especially for long periods as it may damage the phone.
That's ridiculous. I've done lots of long term wifi usage on lots of phones and never had any sorts of problems. I've had phones run as Wifi hotspots for multiple weeks on end without problems. The only potential problem is that Wifi uses more power and therefore causes the phone to dissipate more heat. If you have a phone on the dash of your car on a hot day then running a Wifi hotspot could be the thing to push it over the edge. Strangely Korea is about the same distance from the equator as Sydney but Samsung doesn't even do a good job of making phones that cope with Melbourne weather. Probably telcos don't want people actually using the bandwidth quotas that they pay for.
My experience of using my Phone, a Galaxy Note 10+ 5G, as a Wifi hotspot, is it is good most of the time, but terrible when it encounters congestion.
I've had that in the past but not recently and not when using a telco that runs on the Telstra network. What provider have you seen such problems with?
As in it never drops packets, ping times are measured in minutes, and even when you leave the congested area it still doesn't work correctly -
I've seen it delay DNS packets longer than the timeout which then causes longer delays as DNS repeats use up all bandwidth. At one stage I had my laptop configured to use IP addresses for everything that mattered to alleviate that problem. But that was with the Vodafone network and I think the Optus network, not Telstra. I don't know how much of the problem was due to old network hardware (GSM and 3G vs 3G and 4G), how much was due to old phones, and how much was due to non-Telstra networks. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/