Now that the Blade 7 is FINALLY activated as a new user, and sort-of works at home - doesn't work very well, but it MOSTLY works MOST OF THE TIME as long as you don't need to rely on it... On a good day, even at home, with Verizon towers 1/4 mile away, it MAY get 7 Mbps. Most of the time, by prime time if it gets 2, it's doing about as well as it ever does. Mostly it's 1 or below... Which was what it did on the OLD plan.
BUT, I'm now in Florida. And I'm carrying a T-Mobile cell, an AT&T Nighthawk hotspot, and a Visible phone... SO FAR, in the Three places I've been - south of Birmingham, AL, it was marginally usable, but near Cedar Key, FL, and west of Tampa FL, Visible has been COMPLETELY unusable.
Not "oh, bummer, I can't stream HD while playing Fortnite" unusable, "I can't get it over .1Mbps and even get email" unusable.
That's when it connects at all.
As near as I can tell, the whole "new plan" was nothing more than a cash grab to force a lot of people to buy new phones. It fer-sher hasn't improved performance at home or on the road that I can see.
In the same locations, both the T-Mobile cells provide data fine, as does the AT&T Nighthawk. Visible, no.
I expect that, as usual, Visible will blame it on something other than Visible - the modem on the phone isn't good enough, it's in a microscopic dead spot (in multiple locations), tower maintenance, cosmic rays, etc.
From here I'll head to Ft. Myers and hope it's more functional there than it's been so far.
