Unlimited 4G LTE Home Internet Visible Wireless - Mobile Hotspot Data No Throttle/Caps Rural Review

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I am very impressed with my new $19 phone, and Verizon LTE service. Watch the video to see why! Also included: Speed tests on the device, on a PC, and on an XBOX. Feel free to fast forward a bit during these parts as I am conducting the tests in real-time, as I did it so there would be no edits during the tests. No switcharoos, all tests are done via Visible service!

[LordCommandor]

I have the Netgear nighthawk router still on the AT&T $34.99 unlimited data plan as my home internet. I live in NJ right across the water from Manhattan and I'm getting 15-20 Mbps speeds non peak hrs, 8-12 peak hrs. I stayed under the radar and they grandfathered in my plan. God bless America.

[ego]

Wow, I have been searching for any kind of reasonably priced internet. Desperately need it. Thanks to your videos, I found this. Visible didn't have the phone I wanted available in stock, but I scooped something up, and my phone was at my door by 1 PM the next day. Set up is a breeze, and the hotspot is great so far. I may just get four plans myself with that great deal and have hotspots for my car, a home phone, whatever else I might need them for. I am super psyched. Thank you for helping at least temporarily put my mind at ease with everything else going on in the world. This helps so much.

[jonphanspromotions]

I have the same experience with you. Fedex per did even go to my door to leave the notice. He just posted outside my front gate. I had to call his supervisor to let him know that it was a valentine's gift. The driver finally came back. VIsible is top notch in sending it out, next day delivery. Unlike you, I only get one sim card. I had the sim in in ZTE blade and usually the down load speed is 6mbs. I just took out the sim and put it in my xs max and it works perfectly fine. No need to make any changes or setting. Speed is lower than my verizon post paid old legacy unlimited plan. However, for $25 compare to $95 i will take Visible anytime. ALso, my old plan did not include hotspot, if I want hotspot, I have to pay $30 more. Like you mention, Visible will not work on edge, 1x, 2g or 3g. It only works on 4G LTE.

[EpicRV]

We have been using Visible for over 4 months and love it. We got the same cheap phone too. We bought a TPLink travel router and haven' t had any issues. Our speeds have not been capped either. We use it in our RV and have been able to do everything we need, including uploading videos and doing live streams on YouTube and Facebook. Great review and thanks for sharing!

[chrismiller]

pro tip from a phone farmer. DO just plug this phone in and leave it on the charger forever like a router. this will cause the batttery to bloat. and risk exploding. the phone needs to cycle its charge. so plug it in and put the charger on a timer so it has a break from the charger. a few hours on and a few hours off. it will make the phone last alot longer. and it is much safer. great vid

[You-can-fix-it-yourself]

Take a cheap laptop with a 1gbp eithernet connector and wireless N. Then, connect the laptop via wireless to the phone's hotspot. Then, in the laptop, share the internet connection. then, plug a cat 5e cable into the wired connection of the laptop, and then into the WAN port of a wireless router. Boom baby, instant network.

[jerryfaircloth]

#1 100ms average ping speeds is not very impressive. For some games it would be considered very bad dependng on the user. #2 You will only be able to use streaming services at 480p per Visible's plan description. I had that with a previous carrier and it was almost unusable . #3 What we really need to know is can you take that SIM card out of the phone and pop it into a router modem so that you do not need the phone for home internet purposes. Thanks for trying out the service and keeping us up to date on ideas. After ATT shut down the best service out there its been a real challenge for us rural folks to get internet that really works.

[wmmarquez]

1 week after I activated Visible wireless from T-Mobile so far I’m happy. I will save $70 a month for 2 phones. I use the personal hotspot a lot for my kid’s laptop

[jabawakiebot]

Just curious, what ever happened to the AT&T data connect plan with the netgear nighthawk?

[cggage]

I wonder if I could pop the SIM card into my Netgear MR1100 hotspot device and it would work? (Once it is all setup).

[Stealthy_Martian]

I just wanted to let you know that if you wish to get around the 1 device connected limit. Go with something like GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext Gigabit Travel AC Router. This router lets you tether your phone to it via USB. From there it then acts like a normal router just travel size. Feel free to test if you want or ask questions. With my visible phone speeds with it tethered to the travel router. I get 23mbps up and 23mbps down when testing.

[joshuaprice]

If you ever do get throttled on the hotspot usage, change your packet headers to TTL 65.

Doing this is fairly easily with a rooted phone, but you can USB tether to a router like an Asus and with Merlin wrt installed you can enable jffs and telnet instructions to change the header

[rebeccahetrick]

There is no $20 phone. The cheapest phone they offer is $49.
And they DO cap hotspot data at 5MBPS.
Also, you can only connect one device at a time to the hotspot.
And the $25 plan is ONLY for the first month, after that it's $40

[patpalermo]

On visible You can use as much hotspot as you'd like but the speeds are limited to 5mbps-12mbps

[stevesealey]

Wife and I have been using this Visible service for almost 3 years now and have never had a problem. Have one hotspot connected to a tplink travel router. Use a ravpower file hub in the motor home. Sometimes it buffers, but we can live with that because we are each only paying $25 a month for 2 phones instead of the $135 we were paying for just hers. And now we are no longer giving $100 a month just for internet to comcast.

[space_audits]

Hey Mike I may have some insight on the variance of your gaming performance. The LTE hotspot connection does not give NAT access, thereby limiting your Xbox's connectivity during multiplayer due to how their network functions. The LTE hotspot is able to connect to XBox live as NAT Type 2, which is moderately better than NAT Type 3, which is just you sending packets to a burning dumpster and inhaling the smoke.




Over the years I've noticed ISPs rolling all in one routers (modem & router) and I haven't seen a model yet that will let your NAT access by higher than Type 2 or in some cases, Type 1. If you one of these AIO combo routers (you can look up the model # online and find out) then you should ask your ISP if you can get a model that isn't a modem and router combo. You may have to buy a third party modem and set it up yourself, but you'd have to look into the compatibility for that yourself. Can't promise anything if it isn't officially supported by your ISP, but you should be able to find one for your ISP if your ISP doesn't officially offer it. Anyways, Once you got your modem setup, go to portforwarding.com and search your modem's routing #, add the ports for Xbox. Then connect your router to the modem and get all your stuff setup running through the model and in your router's settings this time, add the same portforwarding stuff for your router's model #. That should give you a NAT Type 1. There's no reason you should be having a better gaming experience on 81 ping vs 15-30ping except for the NAT restriction and I see there in your video your Xbox is on a NAT 2 connection. While slightly better than Type 1, still utter dogshit compared to what you could have.



I hope this helps. I was in a similar situation myself. You're looking at a guy that pushed more LTE data through Sprint's network than Pablo Escabar pushed cocaine through Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor. I only recently got cable internet in my area. I just went through 16 years of dealing with this. God bless.

[Rickrick]

Was that some special deal they were offering on the 19$ phone? ...i was just on the site and i dont see any 19$ phones listings... they had a 49$ ph but it was sold out.

[reeeek]

Can you put this in the nighthawk??? For fester net?

[Jay-nnts]

still waiting for visible to come to Canada, regardless of the price increase, we have zero options here in Canada, any tips or ideas?

[xJustTeddy]

visible told me that the 5mbps capped been removed as of jan 2020