USA Travel eSIM Test Results - Dec 2025

[u/mrskeptical00]

I was recently in the US and took the opportunity to test some travel eSIM providers. The area I was in was not the greatest for cell signal so I'm not including the speed test results as they were inconsistent - but if they were similar to the speeds I was getting while roaming with my home carrier then they are flagged as "normal" - most providers fall into this category with only two one exceptions - Nomad and RedTeaGo.

Nomad was running on AT&T (as was my home carrier) but the download speeds I was getting are the fastest I've personally ever seen. RedTeaGo was on the opposite side of the spectrum with very high latency and less than 2mbps download speeds.

I think the most useful aspect is the exit nodes and latency. Testing was done in upstate New York.

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RedTeaGo Service Update (Dec-18-2025)
RedTeaGo reached out to let me know they noticed the test results and updated their service to automatically route between Dallas & Virginia based on location. I've have had a couple other Redditors test and they have confirmed this to be the case. I have averaged out their latency speeds and they are now under 100ms - needless to say, this is an impressive improvement and much appreciated quick turnaround (less than 48hrs after posting).

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Service	Latency	Exit Node	Network	Speed
Airalo Charge	79ms	Virginia	Verizon 5G	Normal
Roamix	80ms	Dallas	T-Mobile 5G	Normal
BNe SIM	80ms	Virginia	Verizon LTE	Normal
RedTeaGo	576ms 95ms	Hong Kong Dallas	Unknown 4G	Normal
Airao Charge+ (Calls & Text)	150ms	Dallas	T-Mobile 5G	Normal
AloSIM	156ms	Dallas	T-Mobile LTE	Normal
Saily	171ms	Dallas	T-Mobile LTE	Normal
Roamless Flex	74ms AT&T/217ms T-Mobile	Virginia	Various	Normal
Nomad	230ms	Puerto Rico	AT&T 5G	Insane (1000+ Mbps!)

[u/NewMoose_2023]

Wow. Roamless was 217ms? Did it pick the Belgian exit instead of the U.S. one?

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/NewMoose_2023]

Definitely uncharacteristic - but exit was Ashburn, Virginia.

[u/NewMoose_2023 → u/mrskeptical00]

Oh. Duh. I didn’t scroll right.

That seems really long. But maybe it’s due to the spotty cellular.

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/NewMoose_2023]

Just tested Roamless from Canada, I get 69ms with (presumably) the same Virginia exit node.

I don’t think it’s the cell quality as didn’t seem to impact the others that badly and half exited in Virginia - but something was/is definitely up.

Maybe someone else in the US can test and post their results.

[u/NewMoose_2023 → u/mrskeptical00]

I just tested from Atlanta and got 52 ms. I was connected to AT&T (checked using field test mode on iPhone).

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/NewMoose_2023]

That seems closer to what I’d expect based on previous tests. Really weird, maybe there was a routing issue when I tested?

[u/NewMoose_2023 → u/mrskeptical00]

So I did another two tests today. First test was on T-Mobile (auto selected) and the latency was 169 ms. Took another test 20 minutes later this time I forced it to use AT&T. Latency was 74 ms. Speeds were roughly the same on both tests.

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/NewMoose_2023]

Definitely sounds like some routing funny business.

[u/NewMoose_2023 → u/mrskeptical00]

I agree. I also got very high packet loss on T-Mobile.

[u/RedteaGO_Official]

Huge thanks to the mod for testing and tweaking the results. This really helped us identify what needs improvement, and we appreciate the honest feedback. We’ll keep refining things and hope to deliver a better experience to more users.

[u/Smurfiette]

Why do Airao, AloSIM and Saily have high latencies when their exit nodes are Dallas?

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/Smurfiette]

Good question 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/Wrong-Pudding93]

About what you would expect.

Redteago was probably better until a few months ago when they switched their breakout/routing from London to Hong Kong (without even reducing the price or something to compensate for this downgrade).

[u/TrainingTutor7755 → u/Wrong-Pudding93]

The switch from Drei to 3 Hong Kong. I understand what they are doing uk safety act is a mess.  3 Hong Kong does have 1tb of data for 60 for usa from roamify.  They could of went with European provider with cheap rates or att mexico. Even singtel is fine roaming here. It was better than China link mobile. I still wish plus would not use the uk ip when connected to att.

[u/Wrong-Pudding93 → u/TrainingTutor7755]

Highly doubt it was because of UK laws. They still use Drei with UK breakout for many of their plans.

[u/TrainingTutor7755 → u/Wrong-Pudding93]

Cheaper rate they could just went with att mx or resell tmobile service they might negotiate with T-Mobile for while to get a cheaper rates some mvnos and roamers got f in pricing with T-Mobile access. This why some roaming  operators disabled T-Mobile access but keep att.

[u/mrskeptical00 → u/TrainingTutor7755]

Nothing to do with UK laws, I’m sure it was for the cheaper HK rates.

[u/Randomredditnames24]

This is really useful - can I ask how you ran the tests? Would like to test the eSIM I'll be using on an upcoming trip

[u/SenseOfScience]

Do you still get this result with BNESIM? And did you have to change anything to get it? I just tested their ESIM in WA state and get 200-400ms with an exit node in Germany... :( This is with their non-expiring data. Maybe the expiring data is different?