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Does anyone else intentionally have no ISP-provided Wi-Fi at home and instead ration mobile data for Internet access? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/frugal@lemmy.world
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I've had no ISP-provided Internet access since Feb. 2023 or so and, while it's been a pain at times, I still haven't caved into returning to the evil monopoly that is Spectrum, so far, and probably won't for as long as I can't land a remote job. ArrowDL, while not perfect, has been pretty good at download management for the most part in conjunction with mobile data-hotspotting. Update: I'm now using AB Download Manager to mitigate download cancellations at the throttled speed.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's awesome! Especially that it has got you to visit libraries more.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I prefer my current ISP because for some reason they haven't changed my IP in almost a year which makes my selfhosting run more smoothly for my public sites. I also need internet for gaming, being able to VPN into my network, and for P2P.

I could live with using my phone for gaming but idk what I would do for my websites, VPN access, and P2P traffic.

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