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I recently purchased a home and moved in. Before I moved we had Charter Spectrum which I had for years and Internet was Great compared to what Im dealing with now, I too was not told there was a 20 d...
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I realize everything you said is True but unfortunatley alot of it was not explained to me when signing up, THAT is important on making a decision that is best for my needs dont you think? Best believe if anything becomes available in the area I will have no problem terminating my service and paying to terminate early. there were times I wasnt happy with Charter because they had outages quite often..I realize now how spoiled I really was..Rural living isnt for me but like you said I have to learn to utilize it cause its ALL I have! (For Now)
Hopefully you'll be able to get used to the limitations of the system when compared to ground based services, but one thing that's probably not going to work very well, unfortunately, is the gaming. Turn based games are usually fine, but fast paced, real time games don't tend to work well, if at all, due to the higher latency (ping, or lag) inherent to satellite internet. Some of them won't even load because the game servers will detect that the latency is too high for the particular game. :(
The following page explains a little more about it... https://www.hughesnet.com/taxonomy/term/186
I wholeheartedly agree that rural living is much harder when it comes to things like this. I've had HughesNet for nearly 14 years, so I didn't come from a ground based service to HughesNet, which I have no doubt is very difficult to deal with and get used to.
With regard to data usage, here are a couple of posts that specifically talk about ways to reduce data usage and things that you can do, both with settings and apps, that can help in that endeavor...
