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GEN-5 Speed faster than advertised
Just for the heck of it, because I am at the end of my data cycle and still have a considerable amount left, I did some playing around. I downloaded a 1.68GB Linux Mint installation file just to see how long it would take. The entire file only took five minutes and ten seconds, and the download speed was phenomenal! It's almost shocking.
It almost feels like it's FIOS. LOL.
A speed of 5.70MBps (45.6Mbps) is awesome!
I am on Gen5 with 30 GB limit, which I use up in about 10 days without any big movie steaming. During these prescious 10 days I get between 17Mbps and 48Mbps. When I run out of allotment, I am throttled down to between 1.8 Mbs and 2.9 Mbs. Above 2Mbp and steaming on Amazon Prime is fine. But, around 1.8Mbs, it becomes annoying as the steam stops and starts.
My question is why can't Hughes offer GEN5 customers the choice to throttle from the very beginning, say at 10Mbs, so as to prolong the allotment, then do the normal throttle to say around 3.0 Mbs?
To be honest, speed sells... How is Hughes to compete with anyone when everyone has "bigger and better" numbers? People buy what sounds the fastest/biggest, not the slowest.
That aside, speeds when in FAP can hit 1Mbps or lower, though you should still be able to stream standard definition video just fine.
