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Seriously looking at Excede
When Gen5 plans were announced, I thought they were still pretty stingy with their data allowance. And now that Excede is starting to offer 150g plans, that sounds a lot better. Plus the fact th...
Nowhere on their site do they offer 150GB. Perhaps you saw their 'unlimited' up to 25Mbps plan for $150/mo.
And if you read their description of 'unlimited' it really means they can drop the speed to 1-5 Mbps at any time.
And if you read through their forum many are suffering with slow speed. Offering 150 GB at "guaranteed" high speed is something that will never happen. Even cable doesn't guarantee speed.
One more item... LEOs only provide faster latencies of around 25ms. The 1Gbps estimated for a SpaceX bird is the rate for an entire beam equivalent. That ultimately gets split up amongst users.
MarkJFine wrote:One more item... LEOs only provide faster latencies of around 25ms. The 1Gbps estimated for a SpaceX bird is the rate for an entire beam equivalent. That ultimately gets split up amongst users.
They offer latencies of 25ms, not 25ms less. That is orders less than 600-800ms latency HughesNet or Excede offers.
And sure, every satellite's overall throughput gets split up between its users. HughesNet does that as well. I believe the plan is to have a whole bunch of LEO satellites as opposed to just two or three like the big satellite internet providers currently have.
I can't even begin to imagine what the cost of that must be.
BirdDog wrote:And if you read through their forum many are suffering with slow speed. Offering 150 GB at "guaranteed" high speed is something that will never happen.
I generally read the same thing on HughesNet forums. My take on it is that, like HughesNet, they oversell their beams.
I don't stream movies except on YouTube, so I don't need the blazing fast speeds.
Not true before I moved where I am now the requires me to have satelitte internet as I'm in the middle of no where I had Road Runner Lighting Internet at 100 Mbps quaranteed and could have had 300 Mpbs if I wanted to pay for it.
MarkJFine wrote:Nowhere on their site do they offer 150GB.
To quote their site: "On unlimited data plans, after 150GB of data usage..."
That is certainly far more generous than HughesNet's stingy 50g plan.
MarkJFine wrote:And if you read their description of 'unlimited' it really means they can drop the speed to 1-5 Mbps at any time.
If I read their description correctly, they can drop it after you exceed 150g, not "at any time."
MarkJFine wrote:Nowhere on their site do they offer 150GB. Perhaps you saw their 'unlimited' up to 25Mbps plan for $150/mo.
And if you read their description of 'unlimited' it really means they can drop the speed to 1-5 Mbps at any time.
For a short time Exeded (now Viasat) did offer a 150GB plan for $100/month before the unlimited plan was offered.
The largest plan Exede offers in my area is the Liberty 30 plan, which after three months ends up being $20 more than the regular price of Hughes' 50/50 plan, and $50 more than the deal new sign ons get for that plan. Sheesh. Not a very good deal at all.
Lets see, 30GB for $99.99 for three months, then $149.99 thereafter. And it's ONLY 30GB.
100GB (50/50) for $99.99 for twenty four months, then $129.99 thereafter.
SMH.
