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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: What if you cover of your cap? you get throttled to dial-up speeds. |
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| Or you can buy more: 500MB for $5; 1GB for $9; 2GB for $16. |
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(500MB for $5; 1GB for $9; 2GB for $16, this is if you go over your allowance you can buy a token for the prementioned. |
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| No more unlimited.... The plans would be more tolerable if they included unlimited usage at night, like the old plans do. It is a shame to see that removed, even if most users truly did not use it that much. Exede has that now. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Caps really half of what they say 40 GB cap is really only 20 GB can only be used between 2 AM and 8 AM. WildBlue has a FAP free time period form 12 AM to 5 AM. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to silbaco
Re: What if you cover of your cap? said by silbaco:Or you can buy more: 500MB for $5; 1GB for $9; 2GB for $16.
So $32 for that watching that movie on Netflix. Hmmmmm I'd rather be throttled. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to silbaco
Re: No more unlimited.... Yep I'd take Excede's 25 GB plan with FAP free time from 12 AM - 5 AM even if it is $30 more per month. |
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Re: What if you cover of your cap? said by BF69:So $32 for that watching that movie on Netflix. Hmmmmm I'd rather be throttled.
It would be cheaper to buy a physical disc and have it shipped to your house.  |
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For the price I would sign up for Sprint's unlimited 4G. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
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Last I checked, Netflix movies aren't 4GB in standard-def. Heck, HD maxes out at 4.5 Mbps or so, which means that a 100 minute movie would weigh in a bit less than 4GB in HD.
Also, think about it...there's a much better way to watch video delivered by satellite, from a bandwidth perspective: Dish or DirectTV. Even with spot beams, these birds have limited capacity. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to brianiscool
If you can get Clear WiMAX, you're not the target customer for this. |
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said by brianiscool:For the price I would sign up for Sprint's unlimited 4G.
If you can get Sprint's 4G, you don't subscribe to Hughes.  |
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said by silbaco:said by BF69:So $32 for that watching that movie on Netflix. Hmmmmm I'd rather be throttled.
It would be cheaper to buy a physical disc and have it shipped to your house. Sad but true... |
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to BF69
Re: Caps really half of what they say said by BF69:WildBlue has a FAP free time period form 12 AM to 5 AM. I'd take that if satellite was my only option.
Just have a caching proxy (erm.. Squid) go nuts between 12a-5a. That way, in the morning, all your normal sites will be updated locally and any updates will be available without eating your bucket alive.
This would definitely benefit households with more than one computer or "Internet connected device".
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 diablo1892Say hello to my little friend
join:2011-04-21
Friendly, WV
 ·HughesNet Satell..
·Dialup USA, Inc.
·EarthLink
| Staying with HN7000S. I will be staying with the 7000 till we get dsl ran past our house, witch for right now its just 200 feet away but apparently its not close enough.. Service lately has been very crummy, connection speed constantly dimming down, ping jumping up then coming right back down... I can still download up to 4.75GB within the free time witch is 5 hours long going 247kb/s, it aint too bad sometimes in the free time.. If everyone on Hughes would be playing online games one day then the next day could be a chore of loading, the congestion does build up quite alot however i think the NOC is still hidding something.
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 RRedlineRated RPremium
join:2002-05-15
Williamsport, PA | reply to BF69
Re: What if you cover of your cap? said by BF69:you get throttled to dial-up speeds.
I don't understand how they can justify doing this. I always thought it was strange to throttle users so drastically. Why not a tiered throttling? Why not throttle speeds by 1/2 after so much, then by 1/4, then by 1/8, etc.? Why go from full speed to ridiculously, painfully, unbearably slow all at once? It really seems like they are using this as more of a punishment than as an attempt to manage "fairness."
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| Vs DSL? So for ordinary web browsing how does 15 Mbps satellite (with the long latency) compare to 1.5 Mbps DSL? |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to iansltx
Re: What if you cover of your cap? said by iansltx:Last I checked, Netflix movies aren't 4GB in standard-def. Who wants to watch SD movies on a HDTV? Netflix SD is like watching VHS.
Heck, HD maxes out at 4.5 Mbps or so, which means that a 100 minute movie would weigh in a bit less than 4GB in HD.
B) Some movies are 100 minutes some are 2 hours or more which is 120 minutes.
Also, think about it...there's a much better way to watch video delivered by satellite, from a bandwidth perspective: Dish or DirectTV. Even with spot beams, these birds have limited capacity.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
| Then it's their problem that they picked a place where satellite broadband is the only thing they can get.
DBS is an efficient way to deliver video to widely dispersed users. Unicast satellite Internet...not so much...considering that it would only take 25,000 customers or so streaming HD video to max out the entire HughesNet satellite...the brand new one. |
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