No one can say for sure since no one knows what your signal quality is and the providers lie.

Best bet is to try it and see.

Once you've established that it works well or not for you then you need to worry about data caps.

If you have an "unlimited data plan" it's usually only unlimited on the phone itself not for tethering. There are workarounds so that the hotspot data is shown as phone data. Using those workarounds I've used hotspots for years at around 300gb a month with no issues. This was from 2005 all the way up to 2019 since I never had home Internet during that time. Changing to a work from home job made me have to get home Internet since VPNs are sketchy over cell and the workarounds you may have to do bypass the data cap.

Even with the "unlimited data plan" if the cell tower you're connected to is overwhelmed then you will be throttled so if you're out in the middle of nowhere with most people using cell for Internet then that may be an issue.

You may be interested in the SpaceX satellite Internet that may come out this year. I know my parents are there are stuck with 2mb down/300kb up DSL but it's actually far less since they are so far out and they are constantly getting timeouts and AT&T charges like $80 or so to come out when they already know what the issue is....

DosFreak wrote on 2020-01-28, 17:13:

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No one can say for sure since no one knows what your signal quality is and the providers lie.

Best bet is to try it and see.

Once you've established that it works well or not for you then you need to worry about data caps.

If you have an "unlimited data plan" it's usually only unlimited on the phone itself not for tethering. There are workarounds so that the hotspot data is shown as phone data. Using those workarounds I've used hotspots for years at around 300gb a month with no issues. This was from 2005 all the way up to 2019 since I never had home Internet during that time. Changing to a work from home job made me have to get home Internet since VPNs are sketchy over cell and the workarounds you may have to do bypass the data cap.

Even with the "unlimited data plan" if the cell tower you're connected to is overwhelmed then you will be throttled so if you're out in the middle of nowhere with most people using cell for Internet then that may be an issue.

You may be interested in the SpaceX satellite Internet that may come out this year. I know my parents are there are stuck with 2mb down/300kb up DSL but it's actually far less since they are so far out and they are constantly getting timeouts and AT&T charges like $80 or so to come out when they already know what the issue is....

Thanks Dosfreak, yes I imagine they'll be some pain no matter what route I take but anything is better than having to lug my pc to work to get updates.
Regarding cost, I'm going to be ditching Directv so that'll free up some cash anyhow.