"HughesNet is an ISP of last resort"
Browsing through this forum and i see mostly the something over and over!! Bad service, Slow speeds other then advertised, unlimited Internet "No hard data caps" but when you hit your 10 or 20 or 3...
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Being the Professor mentioned (but not named), neither HughesNet, nor any other geostationary satellite based internet, will ever be a first choice ISP. The infrastructure cannot support the types of things that ground based services do for any decent number of people. The throughput is far too restricted to do so. It can be a first choice ISP when one has no option for ground based services, and that's what they try to do. And though a LEO system would have far more satellites, it would still have a more restricted throughput than ground based systems. If not at the time of maximum capacity, it wouldn't take long. Ground based services can easily be upgraded to handle higher customer load. Satellite based systems, OTOH, can't be, or at least not the satellite part, which is always the ultimate bottleneck.
A restricted speed would have to be implemented as an option, as having the service restricted as a whole would most likely cause their customer base to flee to their direct competition in short order. Most people, given a choice of one or the other, want the highest speed they can get, so again, the restricted speed would have to be an option that can be enabled or disabled, lest they lose too many customers to remain a viable company. Maybe not Echostar as a whole, but HughesNet, for sure.
In lieu of that option possibly being implemented, which would be a long time off if it were to happen, some routers have the ability to restrict bandwidth to a user set amount, so the option is already there for those who want it.
As it stands, their next satellite launch isn't scheduled until 2021, which means that their new system may not be online until 2022. If an option like that is implemented, it wouldn't be until at least then, as it would be far to difficult to change the existing system and technology that runs that system.
With this said, they do take customer recommendations into consideration, so anything is possible.
I personally and my Wife just surf the web looking for deals or info on things we need or are doing repairs and so
on house, cars but mostly shopping for things we can not get in town!
we do do alot of downloads but i set them up to download on the free zone and we have always limited to to a 3 hour max time limit we pay for that service so we try to get the most of it but we have never ever used hughesnet total fre zone time just three hours of it mostly every night but not all the time
what are kids do??? GOD know what facebook pic of are grandkids that is what put my wife over the top with hughesnet when she can not get the pics off that facebook thing "no i am not a facebook person"
then we have that **bleep** across the street that some how allways get are wifi password i do not know how he does it but he jet on them dam porn sites! we have talked to him about it over and over and all we get is F you
so i am always changing are wifi passwords now he is gone and the new people but same family
is mad at us for not sharing??? so they had to get your service and are mad at us for having to do that
so from my point of view 10 or 20 or to 50gb at 25mb per second then cut back to 1mb per second or less
i think hughes net can do better!!! even if like posted above do a poll tell your customers what your system can do what your customer base is and if you can do this or that or what ever you can do **bleep** 2mb per second is better then less then 1 mb per second but put it out to your customers email it to them or what ever have them fill out a wish list from what you at hughesnet put together and see what happens it does not hurt to ask does it?? i think all of your customers know what satellite isp is well most of us i think hughesnet will find that allmost all of us would go with a plan something like the above and if you delivered on that you would not have mad customers
like my wife asked me one time when she read you FAP she said do you know what FAP really means
FOR ARE PROFFIT
that is where hughesnet losses in the end no customers no proffit
not trying to make you all mad at me to keep peace in my house and have internet and against better judgment
i upgraded to your gen 5 service and bought the satellite system and now am stuck on a two year contract
and do not give me that hoola that i can leave anytime and if we did leave we have to pay $$$$ to get out of the contract
still i think hughes net can do better ask your customers i think if you put it out ther what you can really offer
at a sustaine speed i think your customer might surprize you!!!
Bill
