Unhappy customer with TERRIBLY SLOW SPEED
Sorry to be yet another customer complaining about the quickly used data allotment and subsequent TERRIBLY SLOW SPEED. For us, data is used in about 3 to 4 days of our billing cycle. So that's about...
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The data limits are in place due to having a finite throughput that is much less than that of ground based services. The system can't support unlimited plans. To use an analogy, HughesNet is a two lane country road, while ground based services are 20 lane highways. Offering unlimited plans would be like trying to drive 50,000 cars per hour down a road that can handle no more than 5,000. It would cause a digital traffic jam. And the reason for that would be streaming, as that is the number one thing people would do if they had unlimited plans. It could get to a point that Google's home page would time out before opening, and that's one of the most basic pages there is.
IOW, unlimited plans can't be supported, and HughesNet isn't going to offer what they can't support. They only offer what they can.
Tokens, which will give you more data, don't affect the system like unlimited plans would because the number of people that buy them and use them at any given time is relatively small, not putting much of a dent in the available throughput.
Because you have apparently read the posts concerning data and don't want any further advice, I'll refrain from anything further.
Good luck.
