Did Visible Remove the 200Mbps Speed Cap?

[@StetsonDoggett]

Get Visible Base for $25/mo - visible.pxf.io/6eXLdK Get Visible+ for $45/mo - visible.pxf.io/jr7GDe Download the free Coverage Map app for iPhone and Android - coveragemap.com/app

[@o_nazim]

So is the Visible+ still a worthwhile value? I turn off the 5G and I have a Pixel 8.

[@OverlandOne]

I love visible. Had it for a year now out on the road full time and it works everywhere I have been, and they do not throttle. Excellent service.

[@markmandelstamm2866]

If you are on the base plan and you get somewhere with LTE congestion, you will most definitely get throttled. With the amount of 5GUW Verizon has deployed, it is less of an issue than it used to be.

[@OverlandOne]

@@markmandelstamm2866 I have the premium plan that I got on a sale price of $35/month. I also have a 20 foot directional antenna and cell booster in my van so I can get a good signal in a bad area but have only needed to use that once so far. I can watch HD videos on my laptop and as I said, I am very pleased with Visible so far. Ps. 5G UW is awesome. I have only run into that a few times but the last time I noticed it was on, I ran a speed test and it was 180 mbps down and 26 up. Not bad for my cheap $200 phone.

[@Slimothy]

The issue at the end is that your app does not take enough time for the test to really stress the network. Ookla's Speedtest would have been better for that example there since theirs would allow the phones to really stretch their legs and show if the more expensive plan beats the cheaper one. Might be something you look into and fix on your app.

[@saerend9905]

Existing customers are still reporting that they're being throttled and Visible subreddit mods have just been removing those posts but yeah my new Visible base plan I signed up the other day is definitely no longer throttled. The speed test incongruences that you're seeing are most likely a factor of the speed tests here just not being long enough. These speed tests are using like a third of the data that Speedtest.net does so you're not seeing both modems ramp to their full potential before the test is over which means it's not creating an artificially maxed out network where the priority levels are actually teased out.

[@ppppaul1080]

when you show your number every time, has anyone ever called or texted you lol

[@justnathan_4087]

Just tried lol it's sms not imessage so it may just simply not be in a phone.

[@ppppaul1080]

@@justnathan_4087 haha maybe bro didn’t use it for iMessage when testing this

[@Jopn83]

I did once texted him and he answered 😊

[@evancline24]

@@Jopn83how???

[@Twitchy_Puppy]

@@justnathan_4087 That or he deactivated iMessage.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

I will have to test in Jacksonville, FL. We will be there tomorrow. I have Visible+ and she has Visible (base). We both have the Motorola One 5g UW phone. Here in Ocala we now get 100/20 5g (finally!!!)

[@tonykeltsflorida]

When we stopped in Jax everything was working good on my phone.

[@raymonddriggers]

They have a deal for 5Guw for $35 a month instead of $45!! It’s great for powering my 4k UHD !!The visible+ plan for $35 may still be available!!!

[@racand678]

Hi what is the deal? Is it for new customers, can you give me the link thank you .

[@CalvinTennessee]

They don’t offer this plan right now, idk why the OP didn’t take 39 seconds to verify that before posting. Either way, that plan will be back.

[@Cory69]

not true i used 400gb this month and no throttling yet. the 50gb is for lte only but my area has 5g uw so its uncapped limit@VeedoCapone1

[@featherpony]

​@VeedoCapone1 50GB of LTE & regular 5G UNLIMITED of 5G UW Everyone always forgets that UW is unlimited.

[@raymonddriggers]

@@CalvinTennessee I came up on it in my email a few days ago, I jumped on it !!!

[@Ben_Jammin93]

Tried Visible and didn’t like it. For the most part it was okay, however, there were times where I would have to put my phone in airplane mode and take it off to reset the data. I was paying for Visible+ and rarely got UW

[@jerrybass9498]

I have Visible's base plan on my S24plus and I can never get above 108 down here in northeast Philly but for the price I'll still take it. My primary line is still T-mobile.

[@coreybabcock2025]

Same here in the DC area and I'm getting n77 and 2x b66

[@Twitchy_Puppy]

108 Mbps down, on a phone, is more then enough honestly!

[@jerrybass9498]

I agree with that.@@Twitchy_Puppy

[@enriquelafontaine6189]

Try upgrading to visible plus. I literally have great speeds everywhere I go especially where I live down in north Philly

[@jameswalddmith5687]

I have the visible+ plan and so far i like it better than my work (tmobile go 5g plus). Im getting gig + speeds in Gville SC.

[@SauravShah122]

Seeing this makes me cry. DFW, Texas, in some areas, we lost UW since mid February this year and went from 800+ Mbps to not even 50 Mbps. Yes, I am on Visible+. There is also a reddit post about it. Don't wanna lose the $35 for life promo. What do I do?

[@jameswalddmith5687]

Honestly sounds like tower upgrades taking forever on verizons side. Or maybe have them do a reprovision of your sim cards. Either way.....that sucks.

[@SauravShah122]

It is just Visible. Verizon and US mobile still gets 5G UW and provision is fine coz I talked to reps about it. That's really sad man

[@evacody1249]

I have visiable top plan. I was on Cricket. But ATT kept having issues. I need to be able to use my phone. So switched. Love paying 35 a month.

[@JaceTheNerd]

Hey Stetson! I’m really enjoying the new app for speed testing and seeing real speed test data. However, since I’m with Cellcom (a Wisconsin carrier), I can’t contribute to adding points on your map. Cellcom’s alternative carrier in areas with no native coverage is Verizon. I’d love to participate on the maps when I’m outside of Cellcom’s coverage. Is there any way you can identify the PLMN number to determine which carrier is being speed tested? (If this is implemented already I personally have not seen it yet) - Thanks!!

[@SsShadowbaneSsS]

Where is cellcom? I live in Wisconsin never heard of them

[@JaceTheNerd]

@@SsShadowbaneSsS Mostly Oshkosh and higher latitude areas. Not many on the western side of the state.

[@thelasthallow]

one guy i was arguing with kept saying they just changed the speed cap from 200mb to 400mb and its still capped. its like he was mad his $25/mo plan wasing getting unlimited uncapped speeds.

[@natebaird]

I'm a bit confused, can you have your regular phone service and also use visible on the same device via eSIM?

[@nick76501]

Thank you Stetson. I'm on mint AKA T-Mobile wondering if there is a big difference?

[@rmstark1966]

Have you done a speed test with the new Visible+ and the US Mobile Warp anywhere? And the two base plans to compare

[@kaisera1]

My visible plan is still being throttled and doesnt connect to UWB. My verizon line gets 700 Mbps download. My visible line got 34.2 Mbos down.

[@coreybabcock2025]

I never seen more than 160 Mbps on visible base in the dc area

[@Credit-MD]

How do the video quality speeds compare? Are they both unthrottled?

[@StetsonDoggett]

Video speeds for both plans are capped at 1.5Mbps (enough to stream 480p SD video) on Verizon’s LTE and 5G Nationwide networks. The one difference is Visible+ can stream 4K quality when connected to 5G Ultra Wideband.

[@BobRamsey03254]

really excited to see that prioritization video! would love to see a mint vs visible video

[@green9227]

Do you get mmwave on both plans?

[@StetsonDoggett]

You definitely get mmWave on Visible+! I am not sure if you get it on Visible Base.

[@saerend9905]

No mmWave on Visible base.

[@saerend9905]

@@StetsonDoggett No mmWave unless you have +.

[@Marky2Mark]

I know for a fact that visible + does not have a 50 Gb cap on priority data. I am 3rd place on leaderboard in Florida with coverage map app and I went well over 100 GB and still have priority data.

[@Debanjanepiskey]

On the ultra wide band they don't have any data cap.

[@BrokeSim]

LTE and 5g, you talking about on c band?

[@Cory69]

same used 639 gb so far UW

[@featherpony]

50GB of LTE & regular 5G UNLIMITED of 5G UW Everyone always forgets that UW is unlimited.

[@tjanderson6274]

Is this actually true? If so i’ll be for sure switching from US mobile

[@Vindroid-g6p]

Wait a second ...what do you mean this is a UW connection? Visible base does NOT have UWB right?

[@ShiYushi]

I signed up for Visible + today and got LTE in my area weird even though it say 5gUW cover. I currently have Mint Mobile, and they keep deprioritized my data so bad I can't even load anything but at least is 5G showing but yeah shit speed lol.

[@maximilianoprime3049]

Great deal 🤝 love the updates Stetson. I just wonder how the 30$ plan began? I don't see 25 plan on my son's account anymore.

[@StetsonDoggett]

Visible updated its prices. Current rates are $25 for Visible Base and $45 for Visible+. That’s what you should be paying!

[@earlt911]

I noticed that the ping was lower on most of the testing on the basic plan.. Could be the phone too.. Thanks!

[@randomyoutubevideos3503]

I’ve had my visible plus show 5GUW before.

[@saerend9905]

Yeah you'll see 5G UW on Visible+ but on Visible's base plan they try to hide the fact you still connect to C-band.

[@scriptskillz]

I've heard you mention legacy core vs Verizon core before. What exactly does that mean? I remember you mentioning it in reference to US Mobile too.

[@saerend9905]

Visible used to run their own cloud network core that was buggy and prone to high latency and other issues. They are now using Verizon's networking core instead of the old cloud core and most of those issues are resolved.

[@jbar_85]

I’m happy with US Mobile!

[@Antonio-2973]

Are video streams still capped at 2 Mbps on the base plan?

[@StetsonDoggett]

Video is capped at 1.5 Mbps on the Visible Base plan. You can get around this by using a VPN. Video is capped at 1.5 Mbps on Visible+ when connected to Verizon LTE and 5G Nationwide. Video is uncapped on Visible+ when connected to Verizon 5G UW.

[@SouthJoeTech]

Is visible raising price's soon? They say the watch add on is going up 3/27.

[@saerend9905]

They're announcing updates to their plans next week that supposedly have a lot of things people asked for so I'm expecting hikes. Or at least the disappearance of the $35 offers they do so frequently.

[@SouthJoeTech]

@@saerend9905 Thanks for the info appreciate it.

[@JesusReyes-fh6wy]

Recently reactivated Visible, and I am being charged $30 for the phone plan, and five dollars for the watch plan, not $25, and five dollars respectively. Going to chat with customer service once the renewal date approaches again to see what’s going on.

[@ericdaniel74]

brand new visible customer here. visible+. with a 5g capable android phone. phone only shows 4gLTE. can't get over 60mbps at best :(

[@christurner1431]

You have to be on an area that has 5GUW service. Verizon has the smallest coverage of this of all carriers.

[@adminofsugas]

I’ve had no issues with this service it’s been great from day one

[@Jopn83]

I wish the cap for hotspot increase to 10mbs

[@rl8750]

yes i am getting over 300 down and close to that with fast test

[@steve9377]

So what's the deal with being able to switch so easily back and forth between 4G and 5G modes on the iPhone but some Galaxy and Pixel phones its locked into 5G mode and its either not possible or very tedious to switch to 4G only mode. Some people blame the carriers and some blame Samsung and Google. Thoughts?

[@StetsonDoggett]

Dude, I know. It’s ridiculous. I don’t know how iPhone lets you do this so easily and Android does not.

[@saerend9905]

It's simple. Apple doesn't let the carriers remove access to the toggle (yet - it's definitely coming as the carriers want to manage their own networks how they choose and letting people disable 5G creates more LTE congestion when they want to move most LTE bands to 5G). The Android manufacturers aren't given a choice if they want the carrier to carry their products.

[@BeesonsCars]

It's very weird. My Pixel 6 Pro has a similar setup to my iPhone in which you can choose the preferred network type (5G, LTE, or 3G) but I guess this isn't available if your phone isn't unlocked. I find this very strange.

[@saerend9905]

@@BeesonsCars some carriers do block that on Pixels too, locked or unlocked. Just depends on the carrier. For now though you can get around that with * # * #4636# * # * (remove the spaces) and going to phone information then changing it in the preferred network type drop-down but they may eventually do like Moto does and grey out the drop-down box.

[@jamespinney661]

How do you get the speed test button to show up? I guess it must be a separate app but it sure looks like it's integrated into the coverage map app.

[@Cory69]

update you app bro

[@coreybabcock2025]

You should see if your on n261 or n77

[@StetsonDoggett]

This site was n77!

[@coreybabcock2025]

@@StetsonDoggett weird why n77 here is slower

[@TheWolfHowling]

I mean, that's great but was anybody truly being held back & limited by a 200Mbs speed cap? I very much doubt it. That bandwidth is enough for something like 8 streams of 4K Ultra HD quality video. Every few people are going to need more than that day-to-day

[@saerend9905]

That's not the point. Having a cap and not disclosing it could have actually gotten them fines from the FCC. Carriers are required to disclose their network management practices and Visible was throttling everyone to 200Mbps without disclosing it.

[@joecool2878]

That’s awesome to see them fixing the code on newly activated lines. Might try and get my girlfriend to switch over to it

[@user-rk2sy8df4s]

Did they increase tethering speed?

[@StetsonDoggett]

Tethering speeds are still at 5Mbps.

[@NYVonix115]

They just updated their Visible + plan, hotspot is at 10mbps now!@@StetsonDoggett

[@YurLord]

Do some livestreams Stetson. Would love to have that interaction with you again.

[@eddiee99]

I get 2.8 gigabit on visble plus. Tower on light pole

[@markmandelstamm2866]

I will stick with US Mobile. The starter annual plan gets 35gb of priority data where you can use 10gb as full speed Hotspot. US Mobile has some of the best customer service available. Visible has absolutely the industry worst customer service. Visible customer service or lack of makes them a no go.

[@markmandelstamm2866]

No, Visible agents read from a script then escalate. They are capable of getting little done. This is not just my opinion but that of thousands of reddit posts. Trust Visible with your main number you have had for years and value, I don't think so. They screwed up ports all the time.

[@rockvilleraven]

@@markmandelstamm2866❤I lost my number of 8 years trying to port to Visible, eventually went to US Mobile and was on a the larger data plan and downgraded to Unlimited Basic where I’m grandfathered at $25 a month for 35gb of Verizon data. I rarely used more than 18GB of data per month since I have Fios with WiFi at home.😊

[@jetizon]

Agreed. I tried Visible base. I appalled his simple test of speed download, but this isn't a true real life use case. If you live in New York, San Francisco, LA or any dense city Visible base is "not the best plan for 2024" in those scenarios. This video doesn't show multitasking and that's where priority data is critical. I live in the city and Visible base absolutely fails at any moment when "deprioritized." I've asked customer service and they have no idea what that means. It's not limited to concerts. I have near maxed bars, iPhone 15, 5g. I'm using Google maps and the GPS live updates fail randomly if rerouting. If I'm looking up a restaurant in Google maps, the restaurant takes 8-30 seconds to load. If Spotify is streaming in the background, the songs need time to load if shuffling. A lot of the times it can't load the songs and my phone starts crashing. All of these micro actions when "deprioritized" result in an iPhone that is overheating, battery drained quicker, purposefully halted actions, heightened danger with maps staying offline. These are an example of what Visible base fails at. Enough with advertising "unlimited" or "best" data plans that don't encompass city users. This plan shouldn't be advertised to people that live in the city. I actually switched to ATT prepaid with 16 gb of priority data for $25 monthly. I'm driving the exact same routes / traveling the same. These micro searches or map loads all functions properly all ... the.. time. The 200 mb/s speed is impressive for single downloads - it's not truly what stands out when multitasking and communicating many smaller downloads for information. Visible base is a scam for people living in the city. Also the support team, like you mentioned, truly can't help.

[@celebrityrog]

Their customer service doesn’t exist because the service just works.

[@CalvinTennessee]

@@jetizonInteresting feedback and i agree with everything you said. Actually makes me wonder if he’s getting kickbacks from Visible.

[@xlawrence1124x]

Looks like its throttling to 400 now. So it's still capped, lmao. Also Stetson I wonder if the speedtest within your app is too quick, its not letting the tests have time to show a difference, if it only lasts a few seconds, the priority differences dont have time to even kick in

[@eldoood8381]

I still like US mobile for being able to use my phone inside Mexico. Even the 1gb of international data is nice for when I travel once a month.

[@xboxone47]

Do you think visible is best for travel internationally?

[@StetsonDoggett]

No, I would go with Google Fi, US Mobile, or T-Mobile Go5G Plus if you travel internationally frequently.

[@Soli_Deo_Gloria_.]

Since you seem to be one of the most knowledgeable in the industry regarding carriers and plans offered I have question... Walmart offers a great super duper unlimited ATT plan for in store activation of ATT branded prepaid phones and unlocked models sold in store... In a past video I seen where you said this Walmart plan is ultimately available on ATT portal to everyone, even those who don't activate in store... So is this still true ? I appreciate your time spent in responding, thanks

[@saerend9905]

Once you're an AT&T Prepaid customer you can switch to either the Unlimited Max or Unlimited Max Plus plans through the portal. That said, unless you need higher than 480p streaming video or the extra hotspot, Cricket More is a better deal, as Cricket More comes with totally unlimited priority data for $60 including taxes ($55 with autopay) while Unlimited Max Plus is $75 without taxes ($65 with autopay) for unlimited priority data and Unlimited Max is $65 a month plus taxes ($55 with autopay) for just 50GB of priority data. Definitely compare the plans to see which fits your needs so you can save some money.

[@Soli_Deo_Gloria_.]

Thanks for your thoughtful and detailed post, it brings much clarity while navigating to a new carrier and plan... I'm currently riding out the last vestiges of my current carrier which happens to be Straight Talk that's running on AT&T towers... After Verizon bought out AmeriMovel (spelling?) in 2022 and which owned all of the umbrella companies of Tracfone, they were migrating all customers away from GSM AT&T towers and that's exactly what my area used... When the buyout was finalized all preexisting Tracfone customers running on GSM AT&T towers were guaranteed to have service for two years... Verizon tried via shenanigans to slowly push people off originally because essentially Verizon is buying air time from AT&T to stay compliant to FCC conditions of the sale... But here I am still, at least until mid October when my time on Straight Talk will come to an end... Again thank you so much, I really do appreciate it... Have a good one !

[@nufan5076]

My visible basic speed is invisible on Verizon. I have a new samsung a35 5g. Visible sim locks my phone settings and I can't change 5g to lte toggle. Plus can't do anything to apn. ? Plus my visible basic speed is 25 up and 15 to 20 down ping is 56 Visible basic is 4g speed not 5g Customer care told me it's only lte not 5g. Help me understand what is going on.

[@jesus5ohhhh]

Hey Stetson what do you recommend? 5G auto or LTE?

[@raymonddriggers]

You hardly can go wrong with either plan from visible, but they offered visible + plan for $35 instead of $45 and i jumped on it!!

[@StetsonDoggett]

I like 5G on personally!

[@o_nazim]

So is the Visible+ still a worthwhile value? I turn off the 5G and I have a Pixel 8.

[@StetsonDoggett]

I think Visible+ is an excellent plan. Most people likely do not need it though and will be fine on the regular Visible Base plan. You can always upgrade later if you feel like you need it.

[@ericshu6373]

faster than my home internet 😭

[@CalvinTennessee]

The only reason they would do this with the base plan is if they are about to put a cap on “premium data” like US Mobile. Watch and see if they don’t change the plans to reflect removing the 200mbps cap.

[@saerend9905]

This cap was not meant to be there. It took a rather loud campaign from people like myself and Stetson, including screenshots of tests and in Stetson's case, video, before they took the complaint seriously and investigated to see they AMBR was still set at 200Mbps. Seeing how I was the one who discovered that and posted about it, I may have even done the work of discovering where the limit is for them as the AMBR is a network setting that sets the Aggregate Maximum Bitrate that's enforced on the subscriber...

[@achillesoyido8864]

Visible has been great for me until last three weeks, data barely working, bars going on and off, network not working even when showing 5G. Sad but I got to switch to another vnmo for now.

[@automaticgainsaying]

Please do a similar test with a 4G LTE tethered to computer (both wired & wi-fi). I max at ~3 Mbps using wi-fi tethering. (on 4 different visible phones, each with 4G LTE in Eugene, Oregon). I would like to know how fast Visible 'tethering' can (technically) be. Thank you. Our Cricket 4G LTE box easily does 40 Mbps and our Mint Mobile is in between.

[@saerend9905]

Visible throttles hotspot to 5Mbps.

[@marks6072]

Lucky if I get 10mbs on my Visible line using iPhone 12

[@ZE3kr]

It's stupid that Verizon still capped more expensive Unlimited Welcome to 25Mbps when connected to 5G UW.

[@eric.li9494]

I am going to call you bro.

[@Scrappygymrat]

I’ve been getting 400+ for awhile now

[@xlawrence1124x]

But did you notice that his visible base plan kept slowing down and stopping near 400-420 Mbps? While plus went over 700? Looks like a 400 Mbps cap now

[@khaibui3575]

wish i can get 15+ mbps but no. max i can get is around 8b- 10mbps on visible

[@techsamurai11]

But why would you ever need over 200mbps? It's 25 megabytes per second and 1.5 gigabytes per minute. I have a 4G phone that gets 250mbps on Verizon and I use 3 gigabytes of data per month which means I only need 1.5 minutes of connection 🙂.

[@RLVTECHUSA]

Very nice 👌

[@philliprhinehardt6268]

Great speeds

[@popwarhomie]

I couldn't even get 2 mbps download with Visible or Visible +. Swapped to Mint after 2 days of using Visible and now get 300+ mbps. Take it as a $35 lesson that Visible is garbage in central FL.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

From The Villages to Gainesville and Jacksonville is all good on Visible. (I am in Marion county)

[@popwarhomie]

​@@tonykeltsflorida I live in Wildwood and work in Leesburg and couldn't even get my email to load.

[@tonykeltsflorida]

@@popwarhomie Yipes, that's a drag. That is the way T-Mobile is at my house. a couple years ago I found out that Verizon was the best at the house,

[@Luke-qs2cg]

Central and South Florida is T-Mobile territory. Though, I've used T-Mobile country wide with no issue

[@tonykeltsflorida]

@@Luke-qs2cg LOL at my house just a few hundred feet north of Ocala, T-Mobile has a very weak usable signal. That is a proven fact. I have 5g on Visible and unlimited hotspot data.

[@MylesTech]

yup finally

[@CoBurke]

Helium mobile best deal in wireless $5

[@bighersh14]

if Verizon wasn't so much worse where I live than t mobile I would've went with visible instead of mint mobile but until Verizon brings 5g to my town and has speeds higher than 20mbps on lte i will gladly stay with mint mobile.

[@ProGamusian]

Slick!

[@ig1315]

Looks like they updated, but capped at 400 now.

[@buckeyered9]

Visible sucks, worse than Straight Talk

[@maddoxmichaelson9795]

First

[@StetsonDoggett]

🏆

[@larryg2497]

Visible is to slow, my speed is 1.6 gbs

[@glennlamb9100]

'promo sm' 👉