These past two years I’ve been using my iPhone as a hotspot. The most use it gets is when the wife drags me away to the country, which is several times a year.
It’s been ok but because we use it for general internet for us both and for streaming quite a lot of video. The 30GB of data I’m allowed for tethering doesn’t always last me the month.
So this time I’m back to cellular with a literally unlimited data plan for the iPad. That means when we’re away, or I’m out of the house on business or whatever, there’s no need to worry about the tethering allowance of my phone. Plus the ample tethering allowance of the iPad means we can use it as the hotspot and not worry about our internet use either.
Plus, no battery drain on the iPhone, which is a bonus.
And because the iPad is always connected, everything is always up to date. As I use a lot of cloud storage, that’s something I like too. And iMessage is up to date and so on and so on.