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Government mandated restrictions on office workers. Any bandwidth help from HughesNet?
Help HughesNet the US government is requiring work from home due to viruses. Will HughesNet assist by lifting bandwidth restrictions?
maratsade wrote:Exactly. It would be chaos, and people would be out for blood (Viasat had a huge mess on its hands when they foolishly offered higher caps), so I hope HN will not go this route.
From the looks of it, they may be increasing FAP speed a bit. Even still, unless there is extra bandwidth that they've not yet opened, it's likely that the entire service is going to slow down anyway, and even if they did have extra bandwidth I don't think it would be enough to make a real impact. It's going to get bad no matter what they do, and the limitations of a small capacity system are going to rear their ugly head, unfortunately. :(
I have a feeling, though, that school systems will take into account that not everyone has the kind of internet available to them that can fill in with something like this. Or at least I hope they do. Or maybe they can limit the kind of net teaching they do to mostly text instead of video.
In the end, simply having a connection to the outside world is the most important thing, of course.
I'll be waiting for the irate posts from these people who want more speed and more bandwidth and don't understand how satellite broadband works. They're going to be angry as all get out and will be coming out in droves to throw even bigger tantrums when the whole network slows down and no one can get anything done.
