Question about hotspot mobile data

[magicammo]

So I'm wanting to live stream some games  but my home network is far too slow, however my cellular lte is not the speeds are fast enough to do this. My question is an lte connection to stream reliable? Would I encounter any issues? Also slightly off topic I'm not sure how or why but I'm able to use my hotspot even tho my carrier doesn't support it I do have unlimited everything but no hotspot for this plan. Maybe it's because I changed my phone over to a one plus that was unlocked?

[magicammo]

31 minutes ago, NZgamer said:

I wouldn't stream over a mobile network at all.

Why not?

[magicammo]

Just now, NZgamer said:

Slow-ish, and ultimately ultimatley not designed for this use case. Mobile networks are meant for like, browsing social media and watching the occasional YouTube video, not for streaming games. The best idea would be to upgrade your home network

Sadly my lte connection is 5 almost 6 times faster than my ISP lmao I get on average 100mbps down and about 30up compared to my isps 16 down and 0.7 up

[magicammo]

Just now, NZgamer said:

I guess you could try it but you might get some issues

I'm not gonna be playing any multiplayer games just single player cause honestly I thing doing anything multiplayer would pose an issue 

[Donut417]

6 hours ago, magicammo said:

So I'm wanting to live stream some games  but my home network is far too slow, however my cellular lte is not the speeds are fast enough to do this. My question is an lte connection to stream reliable? Would I encounter any issues? Also slightly off topic I'm not sure how or why but I'm able to use my hotspot even tho my carrier doesn't support it I do have unlimited everything but no hotspot for this plan. Maybe it's because I changed my phone over to a one plus that was unlocked?

LTE is going to have higher latency than most wired connections. Most cellular providers limit data usage on a hotspot. Carriers know the difference between phone and hotspot data. T Mobile for example used to have unlimited hotspots until people were pulling down Terabytes of data a month. Now I think 20 Gigs is the most you can get Hotspot data wise. Even if they do provide unlimited hotspot, most carriers will throttle heavy users. At the end of the data Mobile networks were not designed for heavy use. Maybe the continued 4 and 5G upgrades will change that. 

[magicammo]

On 8/8/2020 at 9:22 AM, Donut417 said:

LTE is going to have higher latency than most wired connections. Most cellular providers limit data usage on a hotspot. Carriers know the difference between phone and hotspot data. T Mobile for example used to have unlimited hotspots until people were pulling down Terabytes of data a month. Now I think 20 Gigs is the most you can get Hotspot data wise. Even if they do provide unlimited hotspot, most carriers will throttle heavy users. At the end of the data Mobile networks were not designed for heavy use. Maybe the continued 4 and 5G upgrades will change that. 

Tried it out and it worked wonders! My latency is a bit more than my wired connection but not by much. I'll only be using 4 gigs a week