At least as of last month, I was still getting a 500mb complimentary token every month. I also noticed with the advent of GEN 5 purchasing tokens are a better deal.
Notice the difference on my just just received bill of tokens bought a couple weeks ago and tokens bought a couple days ago:
Hi Corrosive and thank you for the reply. I think you are mistaken when you say the complimentary tokens haven't been around for a long long time. I've been with Hughesnet for a couple of years now and they were available up until around December last year, I know this because I used one back then.
I find it somewhat amusing that Hughesnet has data caps to keep bandwidth usage all nice and fair but they somehow have the extra data to sell us if we need it. Sounds like a bit of a money grab to me.
GeorgeFerguson wrote:
I find it somewhat amusing that Hughesnet has data caps to keep bandwidth usage all nice and fair but they somehow have the extra data to sell us if we need it. Sounds like a bit of a money grab to me.
The amount of data given by a token and unlimited data are two entirely different things. People buying and using a token every now and again isn't enough to offset the balance of the system, whereas no data caps would slow the system to an absolute crawl for everyone, and the reason for this is that the number one thing people use unlimited data for is streaming. Think of a million cars a day trying to drive down a highway designed for fifty thousand. Fifty one thousand (that extra one thousand being the tokens people buy and use) doesn't make much of an impact, but a million would.
The data caps are necessary, even with the newly increased capacity brought about by the J2 satellite.
Looks to me like you have contradicted just about everything Hughesnet claims on their television advertising, especially the part about streaming.
GeorgeFerguson wrote:Looks to me like you have contradicted just about everything Hughesnet claims on their television advertising, especially the part about streaming.
Not in the least bit. Streaming can be done with Hughesnet, but conservatively.
I just finished watching the Hughesnet advertisment, the one they show on television. Not once do they mention streaming "conservatively". Plenty waffle about great streaming but no mention of having to do it "conservatively".
