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https://www.visible.com/

A few things:

- They are an unlimited cell phone plan, they are not sold as a replacement for home internet but it I don't see it as a violation of their ToS either. Getting them up and running on a mofi4500 was not hard but also may take a little more footwork than some (I'll get into that below) plus there is going to be an upfront equipment cost.
- You get the price cheaper by adding multiple lines via their friends and family plan. It starts out at $40, and subtracts $5 for each line when you add someone up to a base of $25 per line (i.e. 1 line = $40, 2 = $35 ea, 3 = $30 ea, 4+ = $25 ea).
- The multi line is nice in that each line is billed and managed separately, which is nice compared to the plans where someone sharing a family plan has to wrangle payments from a mix of their friends and family every month. It's also annoying for having multiple lines in the same household, if you have 5 lines for the same family you need 5 emails and the payment method managed in five different places.
- This company is a direct subsidiary of Verizon so I think they are less likely to have the same problems long run that the others reselling plans have had to this point.
- Here is what I did to get up and running:

1. Got a mofi 4500 straight from Mofi
2. Ordered the cheap cell phone from visible that they sell,  it is $20 when it's in stock. I would guess that they may not have any for a while with the current panic and supply line issues - their next cheapest phone is $49 or there are some bring your own devices that you can use as well, they have an imei checker on their site.
3. Activated the phone upon receipt.
4. Pulled the sim out and put it in the mofi.
5. I did have to fitz with the Mofi a bit but got it working fine. There is a built in APN you can set named Visible(USA) and I found I needed to band lock to 4 because it was wanting to use a really slow band by default (I'm sure this will vary)

I hooked us up in early December doing this and have been running the whole household off of it since. We have occasional buffering issues at high traffic times with certain streaming providers when running multiple streams around the house, this may be due to one thing that they have buried in their plan details about forcing media streams to SD quality but I don't think they do that unless their is network congestion and I would think a VPN could get around it if they did.

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I live in the very corner of my county. I’m less than 2 miles from 3 other counties. Unluckily for me I’m in the wrong one for fiber optic internet access. One county away they have an electric co-op that ran fiber to every customer. Those lucky bumpkins have gigabit speeds way out in the boonies. I’m stuck with a big asshole electric company, and there is no way they are doing it.

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Help me understand as I'm untechnical.

If one has verison unlimited already with a regular verison phone, would I have the bandwith as going through all your steps?  

What does Mofi get you [or would get me]?  

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Does anyone have any experience with Viasat?

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If you have absolutely no possible other options meaning no cell 4g cell service from any provider, no DSL, then it might be something to consider. Satellite based internet access is slow, laggy, inconsistent, and expensive.

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They are actually an authorized T-mobile MVNO, they are selling plans through their network with their knowledge and support.

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One more option to consider: https://nomadinternet.com/plans/

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Has anyone been able to get an unlock code from OTR?  I'm still waiting after 2 weeks.  They keep giving me a line about a third party getting the code and that I should pay $10 to use some other service to get the code.

Better yet, anyone here have any idea how to get an unlock code for a nighthawk so I can use the Tmobile SIM that OTR sent me?

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The OTR folks paid a 3rd party company to do unlocks, sent them 3,000 requests, and got 50 replies. They paid for the service and got boned. I’d use the service they recommend, then you’re free to use your nighthawk with any provider.

I know of no way to get a free unlock code.

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Has anyone been able to get an unlock code from OTR?  I'm still waiting after 2 weeks.  They keep giving me a line about a third party getting the code and that I should pay $10 to use some other service to get the code.

Better yet, anyone here have any idea how to get an unlock code for a nighthawk so I can use the Tmobile SIM that OTR sent me?

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So under:

APN NAME:    otrmobile APN    ?

and under APN:   fast.t-mobile.com  ?


do i have this right ??

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I am up and running on nolimitdata.  I got the 500Gb AT&T plan.  Nice to get back to better speeds.  I'm at 15 up and 44 down now.  Yes it is more pricey that OTR but the fact that they actually called me direct to work my setup tells me the customer service will be night and day from OTR.  I think once the fog clears on all the changeover with OTR they'll jack their prices up anyway.  I was paying $60 a month for 5Gb of data through HughesNet, so I'll take $40 extra to get 500Gb with these speeds.

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Does anyone have any experience with Viasat?

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My ATT Sim just died tonight. OTR said they'd activate my T-Mobile sim Friday before last and it would take 24 hours. Last Monday I tried and it didn't work. Tonight I tried again and it's working but at half the speed ATT was but I'm 12 miles from the Tower. I may have to explore Visible since there are two Verizon towers within 5 miles.

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Anybody that's using the NightHawk I just got this info from support.   I got my new SIM but it wasn't working for me.    Will try and see soon.

1.Launch a web browser from a device that is connected to the modem. The device can be a computer that is directly connected to the modem or a client from a router that is ONLY connected to the modem. Regardless if there is a connection or not. If you use a cellphone you must turn the cellular data off and connect to the modem as the wifi source. Connection or not.
2.In the address field of your web browser, enter http://attwifimanger
3.In the Sign In field, enter the modem password and click the Sign In button. The default password is password (this is printed on the back of the device)
4.Click Settings
5.Click Mobile
.Click APN
67.Click Add then change it to APN name: otrmobile APN: fast.t-mobile.com (it is case sensitive)


8.Click Save

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You can make it work with one or more external antennae.

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I've been using a Sprint unlimited plan for several years now and have never been throttled.  $50/month and 20 times as fast as the DSL that Century Link has available in this area. I'm a heavy user including streaming, my son is an IT major in college and studying from home since Corona and my wife works for IBM and works from home. We use many gigabytes per month. I never had a problem.

I brought my own modem and went directly to Sprint but I know that right now Family Motor Coach association has a similar deal with Sprint.
Family Motorcoach Association
https://i.imgur.com/jay3fj1.jpg
I've had higher speeds but this is typical,  but uploading is 6mbps usually.

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Now that my T-Mobile service is working (again), I have once again noticed that video streaming is slow as crap. More accurately it is limited to 480p streaming speed. After doing some reading in the FB OTR mobile users page (not OTRs page) I read that this is the default “binge mode” and can be disabled by OTR, which I have requested.

ETA: success! Went from a throttled 2.6mbps to 14mbps streaming speed. Test your own speed here:https://fast.com/

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I signed up for the Nolimit HD Pink plan tonight. We get a good TMobile signal here, so I’m pretty confident it will work. My AT&T data connection through them got disconnected today and it made me decide to go ahead and make the jump.

On a related note, did anyone else have problems with AT&T broadband being disconnected? I’ve never had that problem with TMobile or Verizon, but it happened regularly with OTR and now it’s happened with Nolimit. Nolimit had me back up and running in about 15 mins, but I’m just curious as to what the cause is. Every time it’s happened, they just send a signal to reset it.

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My AT&T based OTR is still going strong.

I'm really hesitant to post this so i don't jinx myself.  

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@SageEBR

Just tried Visible after activating in the phone they sent. It was a no go. My MoFi doesn't have a APN for Visible(USA) did yours or did you just type it in? I've seen others reference it as "vsblinternet". I've got two Verizon towers within 3 miles so tomorrow I'll climb the tower re-aim the Yagi and try again.

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You can add your own APN if one doesn't load from the SIM card.

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Well OTR can suck it. After a month of stringing me along with their shit tmobile blast plan with 1-2Mbps upload when I can even get it, they basically said there is nothing more they can do to help.  Wanted me to buy a signal booster even though they can't say whether it will help or not.  I think it is bullshit because my signal strength on AT&T is almost the same as Tmobile and I had 30-40Mbps with AT&T. Hell Tmobile and AT&T use the same damn towers less than 3 miles from my house.

I guess have to find another provider that uses AT&T.  What a pain in the ass.  

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That’s too bad. My speed with T-Mobile is as good as it was with ATT, actually better. Anybody selling you ATT is selling an iPad plan, and violating their ToS. It may last a while but they will get shut down. ATT themselves say there are zero authorized resellers of their unlimited data plans.