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Distinguished Professor IV

5 years ago

COVID-19 and HughesNet...

Though I understand there are situations out there where changes could help, I really hope that HughesNet doesn't do anything too drastic, or at least not data wise. A lot of people are asking on va...

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maratsade

Distinguished Professor IV

Yes, the other sat company tried it and it was disastrous. Verizon tried it too, and from what I read on their tech community, it was pretty bad too, and people were out for blood. I'm with you, I hope uncapping won't happen, becuase it'd be chaos. It's going to be bad enough with more people using the net and the usual suspects trying to stream all day; we don't need any more trouble.

MrBuster wrote:
You well know exactly what happens as you know a competing satellite service tried this with very painful results that were predictable, and predicted.

Without data caps to keep people conserving the limited resources, the service becomes unusable. It is interesting how even charging only $3 per token GB is enough to keep people mindful of their consumption of a limited resource. Having seen this happen before, I hope it will not be tried again here.

Thank you for bringing this important point forward.