When your phone wanders off from your home internet..

Northampton, England
March 8, 2026 5:23pm CST
This is annoying. When you tether your phone to your home internet so not to use mobile data at home it randomly disconnects , normally when you are aimlessly scrolling through videos or looking for pics of Dianne when she was a cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, really burning through data .You look up and groan as your phone is offline. I like to scroll at night to get sleepy, when it does the sneaky and drops out. I do wonder if the networks do this deliberately to get us to burn through mobile data so we have to buy more , especially for people like me who are on a budget rolling sim with 4GB per month. Its bloody annoying as you then have to renew your monthly early. I reckon they deliberately send you needless updates for your phone and app so this happens. They say they do it when the WIFI is briefly poor so to give you a signal. I'm not buying that pal!
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7 responses
@celticeagle (186666)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Mar
Does it also have something to do with the time you are doing this scrolling? How irritating.
@wolfgirl569 (131019)
• Marion, Ohio
9 Mar
We have unlimited on our phones but when we are at home it's not a great signal so use the wifi
@May2k8 (19720)
• Indonesia
9 Mar
I wish my area had a 5G signal but currently it's only 4.5G and if I use mobile data it costs more than the unlimited package per month and unlimited is only for 5G signal.
@toniganzon (74580)
• Philippines
9 Mar
A strategy to make you pay more. That sucks!
@DianneN (251157)
• United States
9 Mar
Being a technically challenged dumb blonde, I have no idea what you’re talking about. And stop that, unless you’re talking about another Dianne.
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
9 Mar
All our cell phones have unlimited data and hotspot. So it doesnt really matter if i get kicked off of wifi.
8 Mar
Well we don't have home broadband I pay £20 for unlimited everything SIM including tethering , and I use my hotspot basically as WiFi , It works well and would be even better if we had 5g coverage