Posted: 7/17/2013 8:06:13 AM EDT
Running out of options at the place I'm moving to, just how bad is HughesNet? 
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I have Wildblue....it works, about the only time it doesnt work is when it rains hard. You cant stream movies or download a lot of music or watch a lot of Youtube without going over your usage level. Being slowed down because I went over my limit is about my only complaint,
If you can get Exede in your area, I'd go with that, supposed to be faster than Wildblue and they have an unlimited usage period from midnight to 5am. |
| My in laws have Hughsnet. 10mbps down. It's ok. Sometimes it just stops working for seconds at a time. Not sure why. It is frustrating but they don't know any better. It's ok for web browsing. Useless for streaming any kind of video though. 10 mbps is fast enough for HD but for some reason streaming takes forever to get started. It's better than nothing though. |
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My in laws have Hughsnet. 10mbps down. It's ok. Sometimes it just stops working for seconds at a time. Not sure why. It is frustrating but they don't know any better. It's ok for web browsing. Useless for streaming any kind of video though. 10 mbps is fast enough for HD but for some reason streaming takes forever to get started. It's better than nothing though. Latency |
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Running out of options at the place I'm moving to, just how bad is HughesNet? It isn't terrible. I got it years ago and I'm grandfathered in for $79 a month for unlimited so I'm hesitant to switch or to let it go. It will play youtube and porn most of the time without buffering. Weather does play a part in it though. T-storms knock it out all the time. It's not the greatest, but it's far better than nothing. |
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Running out of options at the place I'm moving to, just how bad is HughesNet? I worked with a guy who had it. If you have any other options use them first. It's expensive, slow, oppressive data cap (with 56K level throttling for 24 hours if you go over during peak hours...think a few hundred megs). Run, don't walk, screaming from them if you have any other options. |
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Sprint still had an unlimited 4g plan last I checked - get a smart phone and foxfi with unlimited 4g and that would blow away a satellite plan. Even if there is only 3g in your area that would be better than satellite. Does Sprint work like AT&T?....I have an "unlimited" data plan with AT&T..but they throttle my speed back to 2g after I hit 3gb. |
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T-Mobile is out. 2g coverage in my area.
Looks like it will cost me a little less than $100/month for AT&T or Verizon at 10gig/month. Sadly, the house I live in now is at the end of a gravel road in BFE and I get 12meg DSL for the last 5 years. New place is on blacktop .
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I have Wildblue.
I want to upgrade to Excede, but for reasons I can't completely comprehend, it is not available in my area. It's not too bad. I've had cable internet when I lived in town. I've had dial-up back in the olden black-and-white days. The latency takes some getting used to...kinda like talking on a sat phone. I don't do video games, at least since the original NES, but if you are into the online video game things, it does't work well for that due to the slow ping. I can stream youtube no problem, but don't do netflix because of the 12 MB 30 day rolling data limit. |
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Having had satellite internet.....
Do you enjoy on-line games like first person shooters or a mmorpg? You won't if you have satellite. Even at the speed of light, there is time involved for your computer to tell your router to send a signal to your dish, which then beams the info to a satellite. From there the signal gets shot back down to earth to the receiving dish so it can re-connect to the land lines that keep the game going. By the time you get a response from the other guy your gaming against about 6 to 8 seconds have past. I know, I timed it. In an interactive game like World of Tanks or Call of Duty how long will you last standing still for 6 seconds unable to respond to your surroundings? |
