I only have mobile data ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you have like an unlimited plan or something? That seems insane unless you live in a super remote area.
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300GB/month for €17, so €34 for this, although not at the same time, but some 15 days after first.
Unfortunately, got more expensive in April. Until then it was €13.
Me, having just switched to a "cheaper" plan with my 100GB/$60CAD 🥲
Oligopolies suck.
We had that too until we got 4th carrier.
I decided to use the Google date limiting on searches, and found article from 2017 comparing the prices.
O2: €30 for 20GB
Orange: €30 for 15GB
Telekom: €59.99 for 12GB
4ka: €20 for unlimited data (from another 2016 article, they didn't even have FUP at the time, only limiting for "personal use only")
So yeah, competition did its job.
How do you use 235 GB monthly in a terminal? :0
Firefox for uploads. Both Opera and Firefox on Android just fail with uploads. Opera dies with locked screen, Firefox slows down to almost nothing, and dies if I do anything else.
Running desktop version of Firefox in Termux works pretty well, and pushing a 50GB file overnight will just work.
Same goes for downloading, but I prefer wget in that case, no need for GUI.
Another way, but that wasn't the case here, I also have NGINX, Kiwix server, HTTP proxy server, and Navidrome server in there. There's also cloudflared available in the repos to make that public. Or just stick to IPv6, except that's not supported by my carrier yet. Or for personal use, Tailscale works pretty well, and it's definitely far safer than making something public, if I am on a different network for some reason that is.
I still haven't updated from NGINX 1.26.0. I didn't see any vulnerabilities that would affect me yet, but anyway.
And of course VNC for GUI, and also I found rsync over SSH is far faster than KDE Connect.
Again, none of that over Termux this time, but I did use that to stream music on school computers from my phone in the past.
If Google does block "unverified" APKs I'll be screwed. Time to try PostmarketOS I guess.
To get some idea of data sizes of phone-hosted stuff:
Mirrored websites (using wget) - 7.5GB
Videos (electronics, USCSB safety videos, The computer chronicles) - 20.58GB
Music - 34.34GB
Kiwix (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Arch Wiki, etc...) - 111.42GB
In the past I also had DVD ISO copies streamable via VLC from HTTP at 110GB, but it didn't quite fit anymore.
Found this, I think you may like it https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-08-29-running-this-blog-on-a-pixel-5/
This is impressive mate, cheers.
Presumably curl, but I can't imagine why.
Are you torrenting with a Linux client? Is LibreTorrent not powerful enough?
What are your speeds like? I see unlimited mobile data plans available for about half the price I'm paying for my 100Mbit fibre. Hmm...
Around 5 - 8 Mbps down during the day (10MHz of bandwidth), but I only have a 4G phone. Based on what I've seen, 5G should be getting me at least 100Mbps in 3.6GHz band no matter the carrier (100Mhz and 90Mhz of bandwidth).
At night, I get 40Mbps, which is even enough for 4k60fps VP9 on YouTube. But most of this was upload, which is a stable 20Mbps all day. I guess most people don't upload all that much.
Theoretically, I can get 300GB, then unlimited 3Mbps at Telekom for €20.50 (limited by age), where I was able to pull 150Mbps in LTE-A (2600MHz 20+20MHz), and typically has some 35Mbps even during the day in places not covered by LTE-A, but I am too lazy to read and consider the ToS and Privacy policy.
If you're wondering how I was able to test that, I bought a regular prepaid SIM in Czech Republic and tested this through roaming. No ID card and face scans needed there.
From experience, using a mobile data plan as your exclusive internet provider sucks. Give up any ideas of online gaming or a consistent connection under peak hours.
Not necessarily. ISPs are now widely offering 4G or 5G home internet. Of course, doesn't beat fiber, but 5G SA can have both low latency and high speeds.
Oh, and if we were talking about mmWave... the real world speed tests I've seen from US reach around 3Gbps. Yeah, faster than most fiber. Although, if talking about phones, that's basically outdoors only, or wherever the BTS is.
Right, I should also mention those home thingys typically have outdoor mounted antennas.
And also, it helps if you can manually select network bands. For example, when I was trying O2 with 20Mbps capped unlimited, I was only getting 3Mbps during the day. Based on NetMonster, indoors it switched me to 800MHz band, which was probably largely overloaded. Manually switching to 1800MHz then gave me the full 20Mbps.
Let me give you an example, I'll take a test right now. Pay attention to 1800 and 2100 in top left of my notification panel, that represents the network band. In this case, both have 10MHz of bandwidth, but the load is likely far different (at around 3AM they're quite identical).
As you can see, with all bands enabled (default), I end up in 1800MHz:
And that gives me...
Turd speed. Tested with same server, here comes manually selected Band 1:
Upload took a hit, but download gained.
From experience, only Orange does the automatic selection well in here, where it won't prefer signal quality over bandwidth. This does reduce the battery life a bit, but it's worth it in my opinion.
To be fair, I gotta mention the 2100MHz (and 900) is only provided for coverage extension by another carrier, thus the clearly lower priority, but it's the same even with O2 and Telekom where this is not the case, and they prefer overloaded 800MHz indoors.
Last fun fact: When I had a phone that couldn't do this, I used to force it into another band by putting it into a turned off microwave to force reconnection until desired results, and then keep it connected by running 24/7 pings in Termux.
can you bind mullvad with libre torrent or are you just really careful?
I only use it for legal things, so I specifically have it set up with split tunneling to not use a VPN.