Samsung mobile hotspot issues

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So here in Oregon we have gotten like an inch of freezing rain over the last 24 hours. Comcast went out last night.

I have a Samsung S20 FE and Verizon unlimited something or other. Anyway, I get like 130mbps down on my phone with 4G, but turning on mobile hotspot my laptop only gets like .2mbps. Am I missing something? Does Verizon throttle Samsung's mobile hotspot feature? I know they throttle after so many gigabytes even on unlimited, but as far as I know I have used nothing this month because I'm always on wifi.
 
Gorilla said:
So here in Oregon we have gotten like an inch of freezing rain over the last 24 hours. Comcast went out last night.

I have a Samsung S20 FE and Verizon unlimited something or other. Anyway, I get like 130mbps down on my phone with 4G, but turning on mobile hotspot my laptop only gets like .2mbps. Am I missing something? Does Verizon throttle Samsung's mobile hotspot feature? I know they throttle after so many gigabytes even on unlimited, but as far as I know I have used nothing this month because I'm always on wifi.
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You might want to check and see if the PC is set to think the connection is metered. Which it is, and you should probably keep it checked.

I can't remember if that affects speed as well as content downloaded.
 
auntjemima said:
You might want to check and see if the PC is set to think the connection is metered. Which it is, and you should probably keep it checked.

I can't remember if that affects speed as well as content downloaded.
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That setting was on but turning it off did not change speeds.

My tablets are also slow when connected to my phone's hotspot.
 
Gorilla said:
That setting was on but turning it off did not change speeds.

My tablets are also slow when connected to my phone's hotspot.
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Could be as pen said, then. Not something I have experience with up here in Canada. I haven't seen these as plan options and hotspotting just works.
 
Ah, I thought my Verizon plan had normal speeds up to 20gbps of hotspot. It actually has no data cap but is limited to 600kbps for mobile hotspot. Blergh.
 
Gorilla said:
Ah, I thought my Verizon plan had normal speeds up to 20gbps of hotspot. It actually has no data cap but is limited to 600kbps for mobile hotspot. Blergh.
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Yeah, mobile hotspot is generally a scam on US carriers and useless unless you pay out the ass for it. Makes a cool feature absolutely worthless.
 
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