200gbps? Sure... when the worlds fastest connections aren't close to that, and a 200Gbps connection is very specialized and used for backhaul purposes between metro cities... ROFL
@JT_Money wrote:
Gabu, you have no idea what you are talking about. In my area in rural South Georgia, you can get 200gbps internet, right now.
No, you can't.
No problem.
Here's the bottom line. No one is trying to rip you off. When compared to ground based or cell based interntet, HughesNet's throughput is considerably more limited. Because of this limited throughput, they can't offer higher, nor unlimited, data packages. The more data offered means more people online at any given time, and doing what most people would do with more data, which is both devices that are constantly connected and using data, and streaming, which is even worse. Their infrastructure can't handle the higher traffic that numerous people doing these things would require, and the service would slow to a crawl for everyone trying to use it. Think of trying to throw 50,000 cars per hour down a road that is only designed to handle 10,000. It becomes a traffic jam. Because of this, the data caps must be in place, and with the amounts they are. The data caps cause people to ration their high speed data, but it's a necessary evil due to what the system can handle at any given time.
As for the price, satellite internet is the most expensive type of internet there is to provide, per capita. The satellites, the gateways, the fees and whatever else. It's not cheap to offer. Could it be cheaper? Probably, but nowhere near as cheap as ground based services, and in the end, they're a business.
No one is expecting you to accept bad speeds. The speed tests not only help to verify the problem, but also help to point to the cause of it, and they're a necessary part of the troubleshooting process. The reps/engineers can't help if they don't know what's going on. Again, though, the reps will have to verify if WiFi speed testing will be okay, as WiFi itself can be part of the problem.
This is such a FAQ...
First off, this is satellite internet. The technology is such that it has limited bandwidth for a limited population. Hughes provides what is fair to the people they can provide it to.
It is insane to even try to compare anything terrestrial (wired, signal-based, or fiber) to something that must go thousands of miles and back just to get to the internet, and then again to return a response.
As such, the technology is really meant for those that have literally no other option because the really greedy internet providers have determined that it's not cost effective to run anything out to you, and mobile coverage is poor to non-existant. This is a niche market and only a niche market.
So it begs the question, if you are able to obtain reliable, non-latent, unemetered 200Mbps internet via another means, why would you even choose satellite? You've clearly done the research, but still made the wrong choice, preferring to claiming a 'rip-off' instead... #brilliant
@JT_Money wrote:
The fact that the data caps are utterly unreasonable for the average internet consumer....
It certainly is a good thing that we aren't the "average internet consumer". And aren't we lucky that we have satellite TV available to us because we don't have the data to stream like many others?
Call me crazy, but I'm just happy I can get internet where I am, and the data allotment is fine with me because I use it within its limits. I don't expect it to be something it's not.
And if you've got a billion or so laying around for another satellite, the launching of such, and the infrastructure to support it, I'm sure they'd be happy to increase the data plans. Not a lot, though. Maybe double? If you want it to be like ground based services, it'll probably take a few. And that's just for a while. In a few years that won't be enough, either, so add one or two more for some cushion.
@JT_Money wrote:
Every provider has a cap, usually in the neighborhood of 250-300GB. The 200Mbps provider I referenced earlier has multiple caps, starting at 250, and going up. My friend has his family cap set to 1TB, and is only paying approximately $90 a month for that data limit and 200Mbps speed.
Better make that, "Every ground based provider has a cap, usually in the neighborhood of 250-300GB.". Again, you're comparing apples to oranges. HughesNet isn't a ground based provider and can't offer a comparable package, nor price. It's not a choice.