Practical, technically honest writing on hotspot throttling, carrier limits, and how to get full speed on your laptop over cellular.
Buy more data, upgrade your plan, PdaNet+, a free DIY iproxy + SOCKS5 setup, or FastNet — the real ways past your hotspot cap on a Mac, with the honest trade-offs of each (including the free route).
T-Mobile throttles your hotspot to ~600 kbps once you pass your plan's high-speed allowance — even on unlimited plans, while your phone stays fast. Here's why, how to confirm it, and how to use your real uncapped data on a laptop.
Verizon throttles your hotspot to ~600 kbps once you pass your plan's premium hotspot allowance — even on unlimited plans, while your phone stays fast. Here's why, how to confirm it, and how to use your real uncapped data on a laptop.
AT&T is unusually harsh: once you pass your hotspot allowance, tethering drops to just 128 kbps — slower than the other carriers. Here's why, how to confirm it, and how to use your real uncapped data on a laptop instead.
Hotspot and USB tethering both spend your carrier's capped hotspot bucket — that's why your Mac crawls while your phone flies. Here's the one approach that uses your real, uncapped phone data on a laptop instead.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all throttle your iPhone hotspot after a hidden monthly cap — even on "unlimited" plans. Here's exactly why, how to confirm it in 60 seconds, and every working fix ranked honestly from free to one-click.