topic Re: Data usage viewing downloaded shows thru a personal hotspot in Streaming

Data usage viewing downloaded shows thru a personal hotspot

Cedarsrip — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:41:06 GMT

At our summer place the only internet available is through cellar. So I download shows at home to my iPhone and watch them at the summer place. I can watch Netflix through an HDMI cable. But for other services I use Chromecast. I can get it to work with two phones, one of them providing a personal hotspot.

My question is this: is 100% of the downloaded data actually passing to and from the internet with this method so I am actually using a ton of cellular data and not saving anything through the downloads I do?

Re: Data usage viewing downloaded shows thru a personal hotspot

Byteguy — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:27:21 GMT

That is right, Chromecast will always stream data from the internet. Even when you have the file downloaded to your device.

You are not saving anything by pre-downloading.

Re: Data usage viewing downloaded shows thru a personal hotspot

Cedarsrip — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:24:19 GMT

Thank tou. I had a suspicion.