I'm always amazed at these videos. I've got 5G Play More (no 5G in my area) and I'm lucky to get more than 2MBps. Visible data (de-prioritized) is not even able to be tested in my area.
@@lorddoma6637 same towers. Rural area, mountains. 8 miles from tower that has LOS. I have a grid parabolic antenna which helps signal but no change in speed. Even ISPs are difficult. Choice between DSL and WISP, both max out at 10mbps. Been waitlisted for Starlink for 20 months.
Visible chat broke my carrier bundle/provisioning. I had visible+ for 9 days, had UW logo and full speeds like postpaid. Then I ported my number, and when they reset my voicemail (it was broke) my UW logo disappeared for good, and UW was capped to 400 Mbps with video capped to 2 Mbps.
Why are people so worried about speeds on a cell phone. As long as there isn't any Buffering when I am streaming I could care less how fast it is. Seems like people are never happy with the speeds they get they always want more.
I'm totally with you there. I think in the case with Visible, it's about not getting what you paid for if 5G UW is not working properly. You paid $45/month for 5G UW, so you should get that service if it's in your area.
Thanks for the video, Stetson! Just switched to Visible after checking out your videos. Everything works well except visual voicemail, which is broken for some reason. Visible support has been helping me for a couple days now, but I think their customer service leaves a lot to be desired. It's unfortunate because I think they have some of the best value plans out there.
That's weird how your visible+ didn't show UW while connected to UW. My pixel 6a shows UW while connected to it on visible+. Thought it isn't a very good connection, always comes and goes fairly easily
Visible should at least double hotspot download speeds. On device speeds are great and crystal clear phone conversations and never a problem texting or Picture video messages
I have noticed you get what you pay. I just left Visible went back to Verizon after Visible tech support could not resolve an SMS and Email issue for over 2 months.
Exactly right. Somehow, this guy completely missed that obvious fact. His Visible+ phone never connected to 5G-UWB, which means all his "tests" were pointless and a waste of time.
So your iPhone saw 5g uw on your iPhone 13 Pro Max? Cause I have the new plan and I don’t see the uw but my fiancé has Verizon and I see her phone shows it.
After all these years these companies are still holding way more control on hotspot than they should. At least most devices don't lock us out of our user right of using the hotspot as a connection between devices for files. Which is our right of the hardware regardless of plans
@@luke-samuel They've had to heavy a restriction on it for years now though and are barely just starting to let up. And because of it they even restrict the use of the hotspot even for personal of the connection between devices like sharing files. Which they have no right to actually. It is our right to be able to do that but they get away with it cause they can. That's how overly controlling they have been with it.
@@jackskellington9570 I'd agree with you if we were talking about wireline ISP's here... But we are not. We are talking about wireless networks with a limited amount of bandwidth which NEEDS to be shared among all the subscribers on that cell tower. It most certainly is NOT your right to use a cellular network for absurd amounts of data/file transfers at full speed and congesting the network for EVERYONE else. The reason visible is so much slower than Verizon is because visible is an MVNO and is de-prioritized on the network to give Verizon subscriber's the best experience. Verizon does not have to give visible full throughput, in fact they could just say "no" to any deal and there would be no MVNO's to further congest the network. The fact they let MVNO's exist is to make some extra money and give consumers more choice. If you want FULL throughput on hotspot switch to Verizon postpaid.
@@nickbrown3981 You completely missed the point. The hotspot connection works just a wireless connection between the two devices without having any service on the phone at all just like Bluetooth for multiple purposes. Usually file transfer. And that is our user right to be able to use the device to device connection. The rest you really need to stop bootlicking these huge companies.
I tried visible as a coworker had it and one of your older videos convinced me. Sadly I had the issue where I would lose service and the phone never got service back despite saying it did so I would be without any service and not realize it until someone told me they called and I didnt get it. I wouldn't get texts or voice mails until I restarted my phone. Huge nightmare. Shame, the price was amazing.
Mine does this too... Only way I know it's happening is my messages won't send and my calls won't connect then when I restart my phone I'll have hundreds of messages come through and my phone dings for 20 minutes
Something wasn't provisioning right on that Visible phone. On my 13 Pro and now my 14 Pro, it does show 5GUW when I'm connected to it so the initial speed test and the 50GB test kinda don't count IMHO. Don't think your Visible plan was ever connecting to UW.
Correct very likely aggregated low bands one band would get roughly 200 so makes sense but man ping with low band and speed aggregated together is amazing for low band
Your visible+ plan is broken. After the chat rep reset my voicemail, my speeds went from uncapped to capped to 400-440 Mbps, and uncapped video to 2 Mbps video. I've reached out to you a couple times hoping you'd see my experience, as clearly visible is just breaking some of the carrier profiles or provisioning, as it's supposed to be uncapped.
Were you ever able to get this issue fixed? It just happened to me. They reset my voicemail cause it wasn’t working after porting my number over and now I have no 5GUW at all. Customer support basically said I’m SOL
For sure I got rid of Cricket because of that issue. ATT secretly gives the elite / premium plan it's own lane. The other plans and Cricket are in the second lane, then the rest get put in the slowest 3rd lane. So Cricket is false advertising premium data as there is the exclusive lane reserved for ATT elite / premium.
i used to pay the 40 dollar old plan with the party pay that made it 25 bucks a month. i "upgraded" to this new 45 dollar plan i regret the decision i made to switch
Can someone plz help currently I have 4 lines I. The original visible plan should I move to us mobile ? And pay $30 at us mobile instead of $25 at visible
Can you please test visible plus vs US Mobile to see who has the better deal? I think US Mobile for the 100Gb Premium data and 50Gb of Hotspot, but you are the more qualified guy to tell the truth.
@@lorddoma6637 well, I do smoke data, not all the time; but from time to time especially now that I recently moved and my only internet comes from my phone, 50Gb is not enough.
@@lorddoma6637 millions of people in the US. Including people who do things like Uber, DoorDash and Lyft. People who travel a lot and stream. I don’t use hotel Wi-Fi when I travel. I mean you sit in your room all day on Wi-Fi. 50GB will be hard to hit
This is why most Verizon MVNO'S are problematic. Verizon Deprioritization is the worst. It would be interesting to test the new $30.00 plan against the $45.00 plan. I suspect the $30 plan would be heve Deprioritization the same or worse.
Okay so the fact the visable provides any sort of useable with unlimited hotspot is incredible but you should not bother with visable Plus because the data allows for these speeds is too small to matter. The whole point of having more bandwidth is productivity and if that speed is limited a certain amount of data then it defeats the point. Most lay people don't understand terms like byte rate and ios/android have high level apps like zoom,icloud and or premium itunes movies set to wifi only otherwise. If you reinacted an iPhone commercial then you would be easily using over a terabyte via uncompressed slow mo and or premium itunes downloads backed up to icloud. Verizon based networks are always soupier and having one bar of version in the rual farmlands is better then full bars of att or T-Mobile.
I would love a third version for $60 with 100 gig premium data. Post paid I don't care what any carrier states post paid will be faster and have priority on towers. They need to increase hotspot to 10 Mbps.
Is visable plus decent? I am thinking of switching from my expensive verizon plan to visable plus. I don’t use my phone a lot away from the gym and home
US mobile premium vs Visible +, is it work the extra $5 dollars for US mobile, with taxes. I currently had US mobile, switched from party pay Visible. Just one phone.
How is US mobile. I’m in a dead zone at my brothers with T mobile prepaid and Mint and Visible, tho visible was available at times if I stood on the roof. Suburb of Phoenix
Another question, if I cancel my service with visable can I keep my old phone number that I bought in from Verizon. I looked and it seems you cannot which makes no sense to me. Tried to do a live chat and got a stupid bot thing that was very frustrating. Maybe visable might not be best for me
@@Dutch84 I was considering getting Spectrum Mobile, but my neighbor said it performs poorly in our neighborhood, so I was disappointed to hear that. He has to use Wi-Fi calling. Which is weird because we had a Verizon line last year and it worked decent. It was a business line. I think it was Business Unlimited Start. Not sure why Spectrum Mobile would perform worse than Vz, if under the 20 MB data cap?
You keep saying that 5G phone on the right (without the UW) is ultrawideband but is not, you are just on regular 5G. 850NR 5G (LTE 5G), which does carrier aggregation for all LTE carriers, that is why you get speeds on the 400's (which is excellent BTW). You should see UW icon on your phone with Visible +, so its possible that your account is not configured properly on the backend. When verizon started offering 5GUW, customer service needed to have the 5GUW feature added to your account, so I wonder if Visible+ is having the same issue that is not being provision properly. Also, since you are getting really low video speeds, that could also be an indication that your account is not configured properly. Hopefully you can contact Visible and have them check your provisioning so you can use CBAND and MMW
I had Tmobile and hated it, switched to Mint. On Mint my phone would't ring, never received notices about missed calls, and vm messages didn't show up for days. BOO. Just switched to Visible and now I'm still on Mint network evidently, calls are dropping, pictures being text to me are not popping up, something weird with primary and conversation lines (whatever that a is). NOT IMPRESSED. I feel like I'd prefer not even having a phone at this point, but need one for work. HELP! Visible's CHAT LINE is also a nightmare.
Your phone most likely has a faulty or damaged modem, I do have a concern here though that you didn't consider a hardware issue when 3 separate carriers had (issues)
Verizon sucks in my area for speed especially inside buildings regardless of UW so going with US Mobile or Visible is pointless. T-Mobile works best for me in my area and inside buildings using Google Fi and no issues..
So with 5G literally two phones vs one phone cuts the available bandwidth in half!!!????? That's insane. And then again with the deprioritized data. Littrtally one other phone throttles the other. That's a scam at that point
I wonder if you tried the visible esim in the past it would let you try again on the new plan? Had a bad experience with the past trial , I wanna see if it got better.
I activated 2 lines on eSIM with Visible for my last two Visible videos. I activated a new line on Visible Base via eSIM and a new line on Visible+ via eSIM. It seems I got lucky, because both activations worked for me. I had one hiccup where downloading the eSIM profile took a long time, but quitting the app and restarting it fixed the issue for me.
what most people want to know in these dangerouse times IS.....Does the Gpa work and is it on point , Not slow like allow you to pass the side st. your're suppose to? GPS during these times after screen is the most important to me... Would'nt want to be in Chi-town and have the gps (Navigation go out) or be driving thru Kenosha Milwaukee with a riot breaking out and no GPS? Please advise...
Verizon 5g is scam the speed same as LTE and I barely get 5g icon and sometimes in school my service is show SOS only and never had this problem with simple mobile that run on t mobile network but visible others wise is good
@Cesar Lopez At the end of the video it shows yes it has it but, connecting to it is very iffy. MMW has a hard time going through things and the aggressive battery of the iPhone always wants the stronger conection even when setting 5G to on all the time.
Woah the false advertising from Verizon is so ridiculous! Verizon was the carrier who started this game of pay more for 5g! So does Verizon post paid do the same thing and count 5g towards your LTE cap? because I remember Verizon telling us lte had a cap 5g doesn’t and it won’t count when I looked into switching.
I get better speeds on cricket wireless visible and visible plus are just a waste of time and money both plans were ruined and are not even legit to have
First if all Verizon has 2 level of priority either you get premium dat or you don't. There is no such thing as one getting better premium priority that the other. It's highly doubtful you were the only on on your tower sector at the time of test which would explain any minor differences. As far as the hotspot, it says right on the plan page it's capped at 5 Mbps why is this surprising. Same thing with video it states it's capped at 480p. Also on native Verizon UW use counts towards the 50 GB limit on Play. Also I'm not sure why you re comparing Get More in part of this video because there isn't any limit on premium data and the video limit in Play is about 4 Mbps. Play is the more appropriate comparison. Play More is $80 plus taxes and fees which in my area is $6 per line so $86 compared to $45 for Visible which includes taxes. Even if you want to count the Disney Bundle ) buying that sperate is $20 plus taxes so say $22 so a total of $67. Some people rather save $20. 4 lines is where Play More starts to make more sense especially if you want the Disney Bundle. And 5 lines or more it make more sense t stick with Play More
Honestly the fear that you'll be a "Second class citizen" on these carries is blatantly just false. Visible+ is a great deal considering Price to performance. THe normal visible plan is also a great deal if you dont mind getting deprioritized during heavier loads.
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems that you are assuming the Visible phone is using UWB simply based on a speedtest? The phone isn't reporting UWB bro. You can't determine that based on a speed test. This whole test is likely broken.
