"A number is users have reported what they feel is an increase it the rate of data consumption when they upgraded from a HT1100 Gen4 to Gen5 plans. The difference is yet unexplained" Well, you know, I was actually thinking about that the other night...and I have absolutley no doubts that customers are indeed experiencing an 'increase in the rate of data consumption" and quite honestly, I think this increase of data consumption CAN be easily explained... Now that I have upgraded to Gen 5 myself, and being that my speeds are significantly faster than the SpaceWay 3/HN9000 service I previously had, I too, have no doubts that my own 10GBs of monthly data may indeed 'appear' to disappear at a much faster rate... Why would this be?? Is someone stealing it? Is HughesNet ripping me off claiming I'm using more data when I'm not? The short answer is NO to both of these questions... You see, the way I figure it, if the content on the webpages I visit is downloading much faster than that of my previous service (Gen 4) then obviously these faster speeds is going to allow me to visit more sites, and/or download more content (without even realizing it) as there will be less of a delay in these pages loading. For example...on the Spaceway 3 satellite that I was previously on, there were times I would head on over to uTube to view a music video or whatever, but being that my speeds were on the slow side, it would take a long time for the content to actually download and start playing (lots of buffering etc)...somedays, if my speeds were really slow, I would just give up, close the browser and go do something else. Now that I am hovering around 40 Mbps speeds...viewing a uTube video poses no problems whatsoever...in fact I've watched several today, lol (thank goodness for those 20 days of resets I'm getting, haha) So what does this mean? ...well, if I'm not carefully monitoring my usage with the tools that I have in place, it's not going to take long for me to exceed my 10GB of data each month...because simply put, YES!! I am indeed using more data. Personally, I have never experienced 'data loss' , at least none that couldn't be explained. Don't get me wrong, there have been times I've glanced over at my usage meter and noticed a massive chunk if data go *POOF* (1 Gig +) but I quickly realize that is it no doubt some sort of Windows 10 Update..which, after some quick verifications, proves to be indeed the culprit. I also have taken the time to install several apps & programs and/or disabled apps and plagins to ensure that things like streaming content/video isn't automatically downloaded or plays while loading things like u-tube, news websites, Facebook, etc...no unwanted ads popping up on my screen..all of which can eat away at your data.
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