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Terry HInes2
Sophomore

Fair Use speed and streaming

Has anyone had an luck using Gen5 for streaming will in the Fair Use speed slow down?  I was told I should see 5M minimum.  I thinks this is another case to the phone "salesmen" I hate to say it by flat out Lying or not very well informed about the product he is selling.   I saw on the Hughes site it said I should be between 1.5 -3MB   which it was showing data from HULU and the rest leading one to believe at the "standard" def I would still be able to stream.  I see on here some are saying less then 1MB is in policy. 

 

In my case I accept the fact Hughes has me bent over the table and I take what I get.  It does beat the **bleep** out of dialup which I did for 8 years here.  I just upgraded to the Gen 5 which as long as I dont' go backwards compared to the Gen 4 I figure I am doing good as the same 10GB plan is costing $10 less a month.  I just really wish the phone reps and Hughes web site would be Honest. 

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C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor

When you have exhausted your data, your speeds will throttle back to as low as 1Mbps or lower during peak congestion hours.

With that said, I personally have found that if no one else is doing anything, at all, even loading another web-site, you can stream in SD just fine once you have exhausted your data.  The question now is whether your beam and gateway is more, or less congested than mine.

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C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor

When you have exhausted your data, your speeds will throttle back to as low as 1Mbps or lower during peak congestion hours.

With that said, I personally have found that if no one else is doing anything, at all, even loading another web-site, you can stream in SD just fine once you have exhausted your data.  The question now is whether your beam and gateway is more, or less congested than mine.

I was hopping for a little better but never figured it would work for streaming.  I just wish Hughes would allow use the run at the 1MB and if we did freeze our GB usage until we chose to run full speed.  Like a self imposed throttling. I really have not need to stream everyday but this coming month for example I would like to watch the World cup games Brazil is in.  With no streaming I usually run out with the 10GM a few days before the end of the month.  I do do some Youtube Music videos.  Low quality but still eat away at the day cap.