We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount Ones Are the Way

Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lxgr on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @07:41PM (#38284487)

> Aren't MVNOs deprioritized when there's network congestion?

Not as a general rule, although it's common.

I'm using one that's only deprioritized after the first 50 GB per month, and even that only ever on low-rate 5G and LTE.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by perfectstorm on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:10PM (#38284699)

mind sharing the name of the MVNO that does it after 50GB/mo?

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lxgr on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:14PM (#38284726)

Visible. They're on (and actually a subsidiary of) Verizon.

I've had their deprioritized plan in the past, and that oscillated between faster than my home fiber connection (when not congested) and completely unusable (when in crowded cells).

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by 9cb14c1ec0 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:41PM (#38284932)

My experience with Visible is exactly the same. I've seen < 50 KB/sec regularly.

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by AlotOfReading on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:20PM (#38284766)

Are you sure it's deprioritized (as in QCI) and not just throttled?

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Re:We No Longer Need a Big Carrier's Wireless Plan. Discount... by lxgr on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:23PM (#38284802)

Yes, it's actually deprioritized: Just as fast as always when not in a congested cell, but essentially unusable otherwise.

At least that was the case when I was still using their "deprioritized by default" plan (the non-deprioritized plan has only been around for a year or so).

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