Visible Speed Test

The wireless service with Visible has been adequate so far. However, most users should avoid this particular service provider. Here’s why ...

The speed test results at 3:45pm HST displays the data speeds and latency for daytime hours. Yeah, that’s dial-up modem speeds! At night, data speeds are adequate enough to stream 720p video, but not continuously. There’s a lot of buffering or disconnections. So far, though, viewing “Star Trek: TNG” on PlutoTV has been fine.

Phone calls and text messages appear to be functional. Of course, few personal phone calls are made and zero text messages are sent or received. Visible routes everything through a handful of nodes on the mainland empire. Users here are being routed through the node in the State of Kansas.

So, is the service worth $25 per month? You be the judge.

Addendum: Network speed tests do not consider local cell tower congestion and deprioritization. Waikiki, in general and by observation, has very few cell towers with respect to the core population density.