How To Use Chromecast Using Mobile Data

Google s chromecast is an excellent little streaming device that offers an easy and affordable way to get content from the little screen to the big one.

How to use chromecast using mobile data. If you want to learn more about saving data when using streaming services see our data saving guides here. The whole time you are watching your chromecast will be streaming the content using your wi fi network and this will use your data. Data consumption will certainly vary but chromecast can burn through data like it s going out of style meant to be used on home wi fi i guess you could say. I have reached my isps data cap and i have 2 weeks before it resets and i was wondering if it was possible to cast to my tv using my mobile 3g 4g network seeing as i am on sprint s unlimited data plan. That s a pretty significant amount for anyone on a metered connection.

If the phone is not connected to a wi fi connection it will use up your mobile data. Using chromecast with mobile data in response to huecolour in order to set up chrome cast with your phone as a hotspot you need to use the google home app on a device connected to phones hotspot. The main concern with using a chromecast on a mobile hotspot is data chargers. Can you use mobile data for chromecast. The thing is when you re not using it it can use over 15gb of data every month just idling.

Remember you aren t actually sending media from your phone to the device. While i don t have any exact mobile data use suggestions i can tell you there s 3 chromecasts on my home network that are used daily. I understand i would have to set up the chromecast using wifi but i would like to use mobile data to stream video to my tv. The chromecast device needs to connect to a wi fi connection for it to work. It won t work directly with mobile data but a mobile phone can be used as a hotspot.