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Deceptive GEN5 Upgrage Practice, or lack of upgrade.
Good morning jlantz,
Please check your PMs, as I've sent you the contact information for your dealer doing the Gen 5 upgrade for you.
GabeU wrote:
Are you not upgrading to Gen5 because you are saving more sticking with the plan you have?
There is that aspect. I see no advantage right now to enter a new contract, pay for upgrade, etc., and definitely don't need a modem with built in WiFi, my ASUS has data tracking by device.
I have Gen4 Ultra and is working well aside from some peak time slowdown. Can still do most everything fine other than large file downloading when really slow.
Is funny in a way, I remember waiting for hours back in the 7000s days for a 100 MB driver file to download or even going to the local library to do it. Now I can't deal with it. Tells me something has definitely gotten better over the years with satellite speed. Some slowdown at times I expect.
Just my opinion but believe much is still going on with the ground infrastructure side of things and a lot tweaking with both J1 and J2 to optimize the whole configuration.
That's understandable. As long as you still like what you have, there's no reason to upgrade.
I was pretty satisfied with what I had (aside of the evening slowdowns), but when I found out that even after the first twelve months of $20 off per month I'd be saving money while getting more data and higher speeds, I couldn't resist. I figured I'd have to pay an installation fee or even an activation fee, but when I found out I didn't it was the icing on the cake.
And, not that I ever plan on running out of data, when I found out the FAP speed was that much higher that was the cherry on top. LOL.
I have literally no other option here. Not even reliable cell service. So going into a new contract wasn't an issue for me as it's either this or dialup.
They're definitely still playing around with things. My signal strength has varied a bit, but has been stable now for about a week at around 106.
I also was glad to hear there was no Cost to Upgrade. I did not have Gen4, so everything was a PLUS to upgrade except the 50 GB from 2am-8am when I had UNLIMITED from 2am-7am. The totally free upgrade was the icing on the cake for me as well and the more reasonable FAP speeds! I was paying $69.99 so after the $20 savings for 12 months it will be the same with faster speeds with slightly more data usage.
I do have reliable cell service but cell data is expensive for having Hotspot usage plus its one set limit for the entire month (no bonus period with extra data)My signal has been still around 100. It did go up some for a few days now its back down.
GabeU wrote:They're definitely still playing around with things. My signal strength has varied a bit, but has been stable now for about a week at around 106.
My signal jumped 10 points today and is staying there. Higher than it has ever been and sure don't think it is atmospherics or some other intangable reason. Some kind of adjustments going on IMO.
GabeU and BirdDog,
I'm not sure if I should post this here or elsewhere, but I'm shocked at what you say your speeds are. In the past 3 weeks since I got Gen5 installed, I've gotten around 19-29 Mbps, download, and 1.8 to 2.5 up.
Previously on Gen4 I could watch a 1 hr show on netflix per day, but chose not to since it ate up a lot of data (this was before I knew you could dial it down to a lower resolution.
So now that I have Gen5 I've done the Netflix streaming thing and was doing OK up until about 2-3 days ago. NOW I can't get Netflix to work at all. It will spool but never play. And I don't just mean peak times (like now I'm getting 15.8 down and 2.27 up) I mean even in mid-morning, or early afternoon. And that's with it turned down to low resolution.
EDIT: Well, after I posted this, I thought about deleting cookies, and guess what, it's working now! But I AM still shocked at the speeds your getting!
Isabel
