angela Is there a technical difference as they hit the cellular modem between packets coming from a WiFi hotspot and packets coming from a tethered ethernet connection if both packets are encrypted prior to arrival and have the same setting for the connected device?
de0u angela Maybe! At a high level the answer should be "no", but I wouldn't want to bet money that nobody could tell the difference. For example, inter-packet gaps might be shorter for the wired-Ethernet case.