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Great news
Great news everybody! Hughes doesn't have hard data limits! At least that's what I saw on the TV screen the other day during a Hughes commercial. I didn't hear any of it because the sound was of...
That's the new buzz word that every service with a cap is using. It means that the data doesn't do a hard stop once your plan is exceeded, they just throttle it down. I have the unlimited LTE plan with Verizon, and they also throttle after 22GB.
The HughesNet FAP speed (upto 3 Mbps daytime / 5 Mbps 2am-8am) is a lot nicer than what would happen when going over the Viasat/Exede limit on their classic plans, although they did not cut off, the speed was throttled severely. I think HughesNet has had this in the advertising for a while now.
Of course, in the run up to HughesNet having Echostar-19 ready, Viasat switched to plans that de-prioritize folks over the limit, but that strategy is more painful than FAP throttling when the beam has a moderate load.
A glance at their forum might give you a preference -- have popcorn ready!
MrBuster wrote:The HughesNet FAP speed (upto 3 Mbps daytime / 5 Mbps 2am-8am) is a lot nicer than what would happen when going over the Viasat/Exede limit on their classic plans, although they did not cut off, the speed was throttled severely. I think HughesNet has had this in the advertising for a while now.
Well, it was news to me. Of course, I almost never watch TV except to watch a DVD, and that's not very often.
I guess in a way I was right, we do all have soft and squishy data limits. :>)>
MarkJFine wrote:That's the new buzz word that every service with a cap is using. It means that the data doesn't do a hard stop once your plan is exceeded, they just throttle it down.
I guess this just shows how out of touch I am. Prior to gen5 I hadn't hit the data limit since the Direcway days, when you were throttled down to dial up speeds.
