When I signed up with HughesNet, I was a bit skeptical that the 70 GB plan would be enough for us. We are homeschoolers so we use the internet A LOT and my boys are gamers (mostly on their iPads). I informed the sales rep of this, told him we used 30 GB from Exede in 9 days -- he assured me that we would be fine because HughesNet has this thing where they "compress" data usage (or something like that) ... so their data lasts longer ... blah,blah, blah ... So the first month I watched the meter like a hawk, by the end of week 1 we were still at 97% ... so I thought "oh yeah, this is gonna work!". By the end of week 3, I had to purchase tokens because we used up the 20 anytime GB. SmartBrowsing never activated. Now here we are in our 2nd month of service ... on day 2 ... we are down to 65% already!!! What happened? We haven't changed anything, still using the internet the same as last month. Unfortunately, we are in an area that we only have two choices for internet access ... HughesNet or Exede ... both have crappy plans with extremely limited data usage allowance ... in my opinion, they are both crooks!
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