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Originally Posted by boyland
Based upon reading your experience i think you should says visible and verizon at the location you tested both worked poorly because of prioritization.
To point out visible as the cause seemed like over generalization as well as a single location.
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I think we generally agree there. I'm just saying it's a mixed bag. The performance you get on Visible might vary greatly by time and place probably more than other plans.
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Originally Posted by boyland
I used a tether service like this one in the past only to eventually have the service cut by the carriers. PDAnet was one we used for years then they cut it i see now it is back... But anyways i think the easytether pda options are great until they are not.
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Yeah, we'll see how it goes. I think the VPN gives it a better chance of surviving. Unless the EasyTether app has some sort of detectable fingerprint then I don't think they can tell. I'm not sure it's breaking TOS anyway although I'm sure they wouldn't be thrilled about it. They can't see browser user-agent strings or what DNS servers I'm using or any of the other usual tell tail signs. Of course an unreasonable amount of traffic will no doubt raise a flag eventually.
The whole "what you can get away with" question seems to be a bit of a random hit and miss affair. There are people on the likes of ltehacks.com with phone SIMs in routers, doing nothing particularly special, who regularly do a 1 TB per month while others on the same plan report getting cut off at a few hundred GB.
There seems to be lots of people running Visible SIMs in routers and it's working well for them. It's anyone's guess how long that will last but maybe Visible / Verizon really don't care.