Is unlimited data in Hughesnet future?

maratsade

No offense to HughesNet, but FAP speed with the legacy plans was AWFUL.  I mean, I know it wasn't designed to be fast enough to still use the net like the Gen4 and Gen5 Smart Browsing and FAP speeds, respectively, but I can't remember the number of times I would try to get to the reset page to use one of my free monthly tokens and it would time out before it opened.  LOL.  It's pretty bad when the FAP speed is so low that you can't even get to the page to use a token.  :p   

With that said, I learned to be right on top of it, so when I would get close and I knew I would go over I had the token usage page right there.  I would go there, then back up one, so when I ran out I could just move forward and it would open up pretty quickly from being in my browser's cache.  It was easier than sitting right on the token usage page and having to refresh when I ran out of data so I could use one of the tokens.  

And to think I was still using my legacy plan until Feb 2016.  And my parents with their dialup until late Summer 2016.  AHHHHH!!!!  

GabeU, I don't remember if I was ever in FAP with Gen4.... I think I had enough tokens so I never went into FAP.  I was in FAP before, when we had something like 240 MB of data per day, and that was really bad.  The speed was really awful, so I used to wait for the whatever it was called time when the speed went to normal. Another thing that was really irritating was trying to buy a token, or enable an existing token -- the system was SO slow that it was impossible. I had to call several times to ask customer service reps to enable tokens for me. 

"I learned to be right on top of it, so when I would get close and I knew I would go over I had the token usage page right there.  I would go there, then back up one, so when I ran out I could just move forward and it would open up pretty quickly from being in my browser's cache.  It was easier than sitting right on the token usage page and having to refresh when I ran out of data so I could use one of the tokens. "

I never got this to work. As soon as FAP hit, the whole system seemed frozen and I could not apply the tokens without calling customer service.

Gen4 and Gen5 are So.Much.Better.  But even with all the irritants, the prior system (Gen3??) was way better than AOL. AOL was a nightmare.

The orange button of death.

maratsade

I've never been in FAP with Gen4 or Gen5, but I know that it's a lot better than the legacy systems, that's for darn sure.  I had the Pro plan before Gen4, which had 425MB per day, but those free monthly tokens sure came in handy when I had to update my folks' computer for them and I didn't feel like waiting up until 2AM to use the Download Zone.  

And AOL?  I loathe AOL with a passion!  When my folks had dialup that's what they had, so not only did they have terrible speed, they had to wait for that awful AOL home page to load a bunch of it's junk before you could close the things you could on it, then minimize it.  I could never get the AOL dialer to work so that they wouldn't have to actually use the AOL home page.  It was awful.  Absolutely awful.  And that walled garden way back?  Oh how I hate AOL.  I truly, wholeheartedly, hate them.  

And that orange button.  Thanks.  Now I'm going to have nightmares of myself being in FAP and trying to run while in two feet of cold molasses, all while getting chased by anthropomorphic orange buttons, drooling orange drool, grinning at me with broken teeth and emitting their breath of death while laughing like Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.  Noooooooo!!!!

I'm amazed you remember what things were called!  I had a different plan -- I think it was 240 MB per day.

AOL was so, so bad. And we couldn't cancel it until the company was forced by the courts to honor cancel requests. I've read that a rather large cable company has the same approach -- they just won't let you cancel.  They have over 20 million customers, so I don't see what the problem is.

The orange button's going to get you, Gabe.   It's evil, and it's coming for you.

maratsade

I remember only mine due to one day having more data than I did the day before.  I started out at either 375 or 400, then one day it was 425, so I looked up what plan it was that I had and found out that they had increased the data amount for that plan, or they got rid of the plan I was on and moved me to the Pro plan.  

Yeah, AOL's retention method was downright illegal.  It was nuts.  I'm so glad they got nailed for it.  I hope the cable company gets nailed, as well.  It's not right to do that to people.  A contract is one thing, but if you're not in one you should be able to cancel without issue, and you surely shouldn't be told that your cancellation went through when the opposite is the case.  :(  

Ugh...AOL, the hangnail of ISPs.  

I don't think I even knew they had a Pro plan.  LOL. 

My plan was much faster than AOL and that was a good thing, but I had to learn a lot about the system to manage it efficiently, or the FAP hammer would fall often.

There was a viral sound file around the Web about the other company, the one that makes it impossible for people to leave -- some guy actually recorded the conversation with the CSR; it was something else.  The ISP is notorious for abysmal customer service and shady practices in billing.  And they have a big chunk of the market.