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confused about data usage
I Fully understand! We have been customers of HughesNet for probably 4 years. Unfortunately, We are unable to contract any other service where we live since we live so far out. I have made too many calls over the years and have heard so many excuses from them about the slow, impossible to stream service. A friend down the road said she signed up with them using their 'Gen5' service and liked it. So we signed up. Was VERY fast for about a month. We can stream videos. However, guess what? 30gb that should be fulfilling our needs since there are just 2 adults here. It's advertised as the service that will 'run a household'...yea, right! It takes 1.8gb to run a Netflix 40 minute series show!!!! We run out so fast, w/i a week or so while attempting to be conservative. It's ridiculous. However, I was told that fiber optic lines are coming along the highway so once they get here we are going to drop Hughes. Unless a miracle happens and their service becomes more usable and less like crooks! It's also VERY overpriced.
First, it's not "overpriced." It costs what it does because it is the most expensive internet service to provide, per capita.
Secondly, a 30GB plan can be enough to "run a household," but what it means to "run a household" may mean something different to different people. Hughesnet is not made for cord cutting. One can stream with Hughesnet, but that doesn't mean one can stream with it like they can with an unlimited service. It is a service that is both expensive and difficult to provide, and it fits a niche market. Hughesnet provides internet service. How that service is used, and how the data included in that service is used, is entirely up to the customer.
And, like satellite for internet, there is satellite for TV.
