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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...
GabeU wrote:Hughesnet isn't going to offer what they can't support. Larger plans means more people trying to stream, which means the system slows to a crawl for every person utilizing it. The infrastructure must be in place to support larger plans before they can offer them.
Trying to throw 50,000 cars per hour down a road that can only handle 10,000 doesn't tend to work very well.
And while everyone certainly has the right to do as they wish, and I commend you for doing your homework, keep the old saying "The grass isn't always greener" in mind, as sometimes, when you get there, you find that it was only painted.
GabeU, you are such a HughesNet apologist. To say that "Hughesnet isn't going to offer what they can't support." is ridiculous on the face of it as I can attest by regularly getting single digit Mb/s speeds and in the last 3 weeks speeds measured in kb/s on a 25Mb/s plan. You are correct that the "grass isn't always greener." I switched from Exede to HughesNet because they offered the 25Mb/s plan before Exede did. That was big mistake. I was on 12Mb/s plan and rarely dropped below 10Mb/s. Right now I am at 2Mb/s. That is less a tenth of the advertised speed.
Zap wrote:GabeU, you are such a HughesNet apologist. To say that "Hughesnet isn't going to offer what they can't support." is ridiculous on the face of it as I can attest by regularly getting single digit Mb/s speeds and in the last 3 weeks speeds measured in kb/s on a 25Mb/s plan. You are correct that the "grass isn't always greener." I switched from Exede to HughesNet because they offered the 25Mb/s plan before Exede did. That was big mistake. I was on 12Mb/s plan and rarely dropped below 10Mb/s. Right now I am at 2Mb/s. That is less a tenth of the advertised speed.
It's no apology, it's a fact. Hughes isn't going to offer what they can't support. Not getting the speed of the service you bought because of an issue is different from buying a service that can't, and never could, be provided.
Call me whatever your little heart desires.
We just got HughesNet. I did a lot of reading and from everything I saw, it was mostly a coin toss. I went with HughesNet since they partner with Dish and I got a small price break on both.
The "unlimited" plan offered by Exede looked promising. You get get 150 gig of unchoked data, 50 gig more than the 50/50 plan and you aren't time restricted on its use. However, it is more expensive and on several reviews I read that Exede rarely delivered promised speed, while the same reviews said HughesNet Gen5 met or exceeded promised speed.
Before making the jump, go to their user forum. You'll find the level of unhappy customers is about the same as here. I can't tell for sure, but it looks like they "optimize" video but unlike Hughesnet, with the unlimited plan you can't turn it off.
Looks like Excede is rolling out their new Satellite now. Still not available in my area. :(
I'm going to keep checking.
150g unthrottled simply can not be beat.
Even their 50 gig plan beats HughesNet. 100/month vs 129.99/month.
If HughesNet would give me 50gigs at 100/month, I could live with that.
But they don't.
I know the arguments. HughesNet doesn't have the capacity. HughesNet won't offer what they can't support.
I don't care about their problems.
All I care is getting as much as I can for as little as I can. Just like every single other person and business out there. I am not a charity. I am not going to take pity on a company simply because they "can't."
If Viasat (Excede) comes to my area, I'm gone. Unless HughesNet wants to make me a better offer.
