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Anyone else notice the false advertising?
jcmipi wrote:Correct, there is no unlimited service in existence. Any ISP claiming that is lying.
Hughesnet is one of those ISPs.
Semantics nonsense. HughesNet is an unlimited service. You aren't cut off when you run out of your allotment of high speed data.
You're cut off from virtually everything but a few websites and maybe your email. I have to deal with semantic nonsense because that's what your company does. Though quite frequently the speeds provided are about the same throttled as they are before you run out of data. A frighteningly fast 0.8 Mbps
jcmipi wrote:You're cut off from virtually everything but a few websites and maybe your email. I have to deal with semantic nonsense because that's what your company does. Though quite frequently the speeds provided are about the same throttled as they are before you run out of data. A frighteningly fast 0.8 Mbps
No, you're not. Your speed is throttled during FAP, nothing more. You're not cut off from any websites or services, though the speed you're throttled to may not be enough for some services to work properly.
The bottom line...don't run out of your high speed data allotment.
GabeU wrote:
Your speed is throttled during FAP, nothing more. You're not cut off from any websites or services, though the speed you're throttled to may not be enough for some services to work properly.Semantic nonsense.
I have to agree with the OP on the claim of unlimited data being widely misused. In our case, once we hit the normal data 'limit' and connection is still available but 'throttled' it should be referred to as unusable or unsuitable for use. Once we reach the throttled data status, we often cannot even connect to our Hughesnet account. This evening it took 20 min. and multiple connection attempts to be able to add a bonus token.
Btw, we have no other devices connected because they are unusable once this status is reached. Throttled I could handle, 20 min. to possibly reach a text only page to purchase more data is not reasonable and I can't see this being justified as 'unlimited'
Your issue sounds like something else is going on, as FAP speed is generally enough to do just about anything people normally do on the net, save for streaming, which may or may not work correctly, depending on speed and definition.
If you would like to troubleshoot the issue, please start a new topic in the Tech Support section, which you can do here... https://community.hughesnet.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/TechSupport
jcmipi wrote:You're cut off from virtually everything but a few websites and maybe your email. I have to deal with semantic nonsense because that's what your company does. Though quite frequently the speeds provided are about the same throttled as they are before you run out of data. A frighteningly fast 0.8 Mbps
Here's the irony in that. One of the websites I have the most trouble with loading once my data limit has been reach is HughesNet's website.
