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Data Usage With Jupiter 3
Hi. I was so excited to get realigned to the Jupiter 3. Not only do I have faster speeds but the Elite plan is substantially cheaper than the 200GB plan on the old satellite. Yes, there was an initia...
An update to my Jupiter 3 experience.
My last post was 2 weeks ago. I was frustrated and had resigned myself to either spending money on tokens or not streaming TV for the 2 weeks after I used my priority data. I ran out (250GB - I had purchased tokens) 2 days later with 11 days to go until the data rollover. To my surprise, nothing changed. Standard data speed was more than adequate for my home and daily use. In fact, I returned to my habit of having the TV on all day and turned the data optimizer off. No more blurry TV! It was nothing less than liberating. I routinely checked speeds with Ookla and am consistently within 10 Mbps - 20 Mbps range, speeds slowing in the evenings. All internet providers boast speeds and I was convinced that I needed hundreds of Mbps to do anything. This is simply not true. I changed my service plan to the 100 GB to recoup some money. I realize that the standard data speeds may decrease in the future with the inevitable increase of accounts signing on to the Jupiter 3, but I am hoping that will take some time and that the big guy up there can keep up the pace.
Also, here's an interesting nugget. When I switched service plans yesterday, the100 GB priority data was immediately applied. I just checked my speed...15.4 Mbps at 8:20am LOL. We burned through 37 GB watching the game yesterday in HD but I can comfortably say I don't care, it was worth it. Even if my strategy falls apart this cycle, which given HughesNet's inconsistent service is a very plausible possibility, I am no longer going to stress out over speed and data. All of the back and forth, both here and exhaustive calls with tech support, has done nothing but cause more stress and frustration. At no time (official HughesNet tech support has yet to respond here) did anyone suggest that standard data speeds might be adequate for my purposes but then why would they? Its the same reason why there is no plan less than 100 GB (unlike the old satellite that offered 25 GB) or just a standard data plan. I'm sure the hardware up there is a bit pricey.
I'm sure the "Professors" are firing up their keyboards and will "educate" me further but meh...I'm good.
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Not to throw this off topic, but it's sad what's happening with landline phones. My landline home phone became prohibitively expensive, as in over $100 per month, and it was having a number of the problems over the last few years I had it. So much so that it was less expensive to go with a cell plan. I don't get a very good cell signal here, but it's enough. I also have a cheap flip phone through Tracfone for backup. It's less than $20 per month with autopay, but very worth it.
My folks had AT&T landline service, but AT&T ended it here a few years ago, so they had to switch to Verizon. With fewer and fewer people having it around here, it wouldn't surprise me if Verizon bows out soon too. Of the seven houses on my little, dead end road, I think my folks' is the only one that still has it.
I had to go switch to a cell plan too because the landline infrastructure was deteriorating and Verizon wouldn't repair it. And it was quite expensive too. I don't get a stellar cell signal here, either.
I doubt Verizon will buy out AT&T land infrastructure. Their cell service here is worse than AT&T. I do have a generator if the power goes out, so voip would work, if Texas doesn't freeze or? like it did for a few days. Always ready for an outage of? the travails of an electronic world. Satellite combat coming , why we have space force .
I had a Verizon landline and moved to Verizon cell service after V stopped maintaining their own landline infrastructure. AT&T is abysmal here; Verizon is much better.
