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According to Visible, their tethering is limited to 5Mbps on their low-tier plan and 10Mbps on their upper-tier plan. That's still useful - you can even watch N
by mdasen 2y ago
According to Visible, their tethering is limited to 5Mbps on their low-tier plan and 10Mbps on their upper-tier plan. That's still useful - you can even watch Netflix and stuff. However, the tethering is limited in speed.
The mobile data isn't limited in speed, just lower priority as you note.
- lxgr 2y agoIt’s also capped to support only a single tethered device, at least on iPhones. The fact that Visible/Verizon can even get my (unlocked, full price) iPhone to cooperate in limiting itself in that way in the first place makes me pretty sad.
- ssl-3 2y agoThat's the official party line, more or less. By design, there is a hard bandwidth limit on tethering. There's also a device limit. Eg, if one were to buy a new phone and put a new Visible SIM into that phone and tether their new MacBook with it, and do nothing else, the speed would indeed be limited and this limit would be enforced at the carrier level, and furthermore connecting a second device would be theoretically impossible. But setting TTL to 65 has been very effective every time I've done it, whereby: The speed of tethering is about the same as the speed of data on the pocket computer itself at any given time. And I've never actually run into a device limit, even without tricks. (So yeah, there's reasons for my camping rig to have a USB 3 ethernet adapter for a phone, with USB PD passthrough. I wouldn't care so much if 10Mbps were all that could be accomplished, but things are not necessarily slow like that at all if you're holding it right. There's a million other ways to skin this cat. A cheap travel router is one way. A cheap USB WiFi adapter on a laptop is another. Setting TTL forever is a one-liner on Windows. And y'all know how to do NAT.)