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Visible is a Verizon subsidiary with unlimited everything for $25/month with “Party Pay” and no contract. You can tether with it and the only trade off is that

Visible is a Verizon subsidiary with unlimited everything for $25/month with “Party Pay” and no contract. You can tether with it and the only trade off is that you get deprioritized first in crowded environments. There’s also no store, but I see that as an improvement.

m0ngr31 5y ago
That was the first one I tried, but I was getting data speeds of about .1 Mbps
- fossuser 5y ago
  Interesting - must be regional I guess, I get good speeds where I use it.
- k3oni 5y ago
  Same here, tried it on out last time out with the travel trailer. Canceled the plan after we got back home as it was terrible, and not to speak that we were in areas where it should have run flawless. Ended up using my main phone's connection for some of the work i had to do.
mdasen 5y ago
Visible's tethering is limited to 5Mbps (according to their pricing page). Have you been getting more than 5Mbps tethering? Do you do anything to get around tethering speed limits? Deprioritization can be hard in some areas. Verizon has the most customers and the least spectrum at the moment.
- fossuser 5y ago
  I think I've gotten more than 5mbps (or at least was for a time) - I haven't done anything, but I might be wrong about this (I don't rely on tethering most of the time so haven't noticed). IIRC a long time ago all of Visible's data speed was capped at 5mbps and that was the 'tradeoff' of the low cost service in addition to deprioritization. They eventually dropped that cap, but it's possible it still exists for tethering. I will plug Starlink for those that can get it though - not mobile yet, but we went from a crappy calnet connection to a stable 50+ sometimes 150+ mbps connection. When they get it working across cells (which Musk tweeted interest about) it'd be a pretty sweet option for an RV. If you're out in the boonies though and looking for stable home internet, it can't be beat (as long as you have a clear view of the sky).

m0ngr31 5y ago

That was the first one I tried, but I was getting data speeds of about .1 Mbps

fossuser 5y ago
Interesting - must be regional I guess, I get good speeds where I use it.
k3oni 5y ago
Same here, tried it on out last time out with the travel trailer. Canceled the plan after we got back home as it was terrible, and not to speak that we were in areas where it should have run flawless. Ended up using my main phone's connection for some of the work i had to do.

mdasen 5y ago

Visible's tethering is limited to 5Mbps (according to their pricing page). Have you been getting more than 5Mbps tethering? Do you do anything to get around tethering speed limits? Deprioritization can be hard in some areas. Verizon has the most customers and the least spectrum at the moment.

fossuser 5y ago
I think I've gotten more than 5mbps (or at least was for a time) - I haven't done anything, but I might be wrong about this (I don't rely on tethering most of the time so haven't noticed). IIRC a long time ago all of Visible's data speed was capped at 5mbps and that was the 'tradeoff' of the low cost service in addition to deprioritization. They eventually dropped that cap, but it's possible it still exists for tethering. I will plug Starlink for those that can get it though - not mobile yet, but we went from a crappy calnet connection to a stable 50+ sometimes 150+ mbps connection. When they get it working across cells (which Musk tweeted interest about) it'd be a pretty sweet option for an RV. If you're out in the boonies though and looking for stable home internet, it can't be beat (as long as you have a clear view of the sky).