Hotspot limits · United States

AT&T hotspot limits

Checked 1 November 2026 against AT&T’s own pages. Plans change: your plan’s terms win.

Every AT&T Unlimited Your Way plan includes hotspot data, in an amount that depends on the plan. Once it’s used, hotspot keeps working at a very low speed until the next bill cycle.

Hotspot data
250 GB (Elite 2.0), 100 GB (Premium 2.0), 50 GB (Extra 2.0) or 3 GB (Value 2.0) per line, each month.
After it
A maximum of 128 kbps for the rest of the bill cycle.
Video
4K UHD on Elite 2.0 and Premium 2.0; SD on Extra 2.0 and Value 2.0.
Check
Dial *3282#, or look at Hotspot usage in myAT&T.

Hotspot allowance

AT&T’s Unlimited Your Way page lists hotspot data per line, per month:

  • AT&T Elite 2.0: 250 GB.
  • AT&T Premium 2.0: 100 GB.
  • AT&T Extra 2.0: 50 GB.
  • AT&T Value 2.0: 3 GB.

Tablet lines added to an Unlimited Your Way group get 30 GB of hotspot data. Older plans had smaller allowances with the same slowdown; check yours in myAT&T.

Speed after the allowance

  • Once a line’s hotspot data is used, hotspot speeds slow to a maximum of 128 kbps until the next bill cycle.
  • At that speed, web pages load slowly and video hardly plays.

Plans without hotspot

AT&T’s current Unlimited Your Way plans all include hotspot data. Older or prepaid plans can differ; the plan’s own terms say.

Video

  • Elite 2.0 and Premium 2.0 stream video in up to 4K UHD.
  • Extra 2.0 and Value 2.0 stream video in SD.

Check what’s left

  1. From the AT&T phone, dial *3282# to get a text with the data used since your last bill.

  2. Or sign in to myAT&T, go to usage, and look at Hotspot usage, which shows the cellular data used for hotspot.

AT&T also lets you set data usage alerts in myAT&T.

What Kilobat can tell you

If every speed test and big download on your hotspot stops near the same speed, such as the 128 kbps AT&T publishes, on different occasions while the ping stays normal, Health says it looks like AT&T’s hotspot cap. A weak signal or a busy cell wanders instead, and Kilobat says nothing then. It also notices video held near 1.5 Mbps while other downloads run faster. It can’t see your allowance or tell a hotspot cap from a plan that caps everything: check on the phone too.

It’s free in Health on any phone hotspot, with the measurements behind it in Kilobat Pro, and in the terminal with kilobat hotspot. More in the docs and saving hotspot data.

Questions

Is 128 kbps usable for a laptop?

Barely. A laptop’s background traffic alone can fill it. If your AT&T hotspot suddenly crawls near the end of a bill cycle, check Hotspot usage in myAT&T first.

Sources

Checked against AT&T’s own plan pages, terms and help articles on 1 November 2026. Allowances and speeds differ by plan and change often; what your own plan says wins.

See what your hotspot is really doing

Kilobat is a Mac menu-bar app that shows which apps use your hotspot’s data, holds back updaters on metered networks, and says when downloads keep stopping at the same speed.

Download for Mac ↓
brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat