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Gen 5 FAP Speed not 3 Mbps
Hello, I was a Gen 4 customer for a year and then was convinced to upgrade to Gen 5 when I called to cancel my service. One of the reasons I upgraded was that the sales person told me that after I us...
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Hughesnet Gen5 FAP speeds are stated as "speed of the Services may be reduced to as low as or lower than 1 Mbps"
http://legal.hughesnet.com/FairAccessPolicyGen5.cfm
I am sure monday that one of the reps will request a sales call review and see what was said during it.
FYI, the speed tests are finished: http://testmy.net/quickstats/ilmontgo
Max speed over 15 hours of testing was 1.41 Mb. Looks like the throttle is 1.5 Mb instead of 3 Mb.
I suppose this doesn't really matter though as I read the Legal Fair Access Policy that's linked above and nowhere does it say 3 Mbps. I look forward to hearing the response to the review of the sales call because I'm sure they told me Gen 5 FAP was 3 Mbps.
Like I said, it will be monday before a rep here can request a sales call review, so it could be upto friday before you find anything out.
