lighthope1
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Am I able to suspend an account?
I have Starlink coming next week, and it is arriving just about the time my next billing cycle it going to hit. Can I suspend my HughesNet account without actually cancelling? Just in case Starlink doesn't work since I do have trees on my property.4.1KViews0likes3CommentsRe: New plans for 2022?
GabeUwrote: It does, but HughesNet will still have its place, as will the company itself in the long run, as they are involved in the LEO game as well. I did hear they were attempting to get into the LEO game. And that they had some government contracts. HughesNet isn't going to disappear.5.3KViews0likes0CommentsNew plans for 2022?
Want to jump in on something another user said in another thread. > I was told by a Hughesnet customer service rep. to expect a much better deal by first of this year. Is this true? I have not heard anything like that, but it would not surprise me. Starlink will be online by then and HughesNet is going to be eaten up by them if they don't better plans/cheaper pricing. Nothing HughesNet can do about the latency, but the data caps, prices, and ginormous slowdowns people are experiencing are making any competition look extremely attractive.5.3KViews2likes3CommentsFix or wait?
Okay, this is probably going to be a stupid, non-answerable question, but it is one I am struggling to answer. So am looking for opinions. The sattelite I am on has really good speed, but horrid latency. 4 seconds, 10 seconds, 44 seconds. (I made a thread about this some time ago) HughesNet was kind enough to give me a bigger dish in the hope that it would solve the problem. It didn't. Of course, it did seem to solve the problem when the tech was there, and when I ran the test when he was there. But after he left and more testing, the problem resurfaced. Some of the work I do requires me to have better latency than that. Satellite latency is okay, but not this multi-second latency. An option is to move me back to the other satellite. It is overloaded and the speeds are not good in the evening, but the latency is better. Assuming it isn't too overloaded. Question: Should I ask HughesNet if they will move me back to the other satellite with better latency (but slower speeds), a cost I will have to pay for. Or should I wait the six months when Starlink will open up their public beta, which I have a chance of getting in to since I am in the area they are going to want for the beta (high northern US)?8.5KViews0likes4CommentsRe: 100gig, but 30gig for streaming
MarkJFinewrote: Because you're still potentially doubling people's allowance when the bandwidth isn't even there to support the current situation. You'd just be making it a lot worse and making people even more angry. lighthope1wrote: Since streaming services eat up so much internet traffic, why not a plan that ups the amount of data we have so we can download updates and other apps that are usually one-time downloads, but limit the amount of data from streaming sites? So you get 100 gigs. But if you download more than..say...30 gigs from Netflix, any more data from Netflix gets throttled. More data available, but stops that bandwidth hogs. It's the streaming that is killing the internet right now. And before. One of the problems customers have is that updates eat a lot of data. But they are infrequent. Really, just tossing ideas out there to drag HughesNet kicking and screaming into the 21 century. Their data plans don't match what users need these days. Especially since I think the Leos are going to eat them up. Yes, equipment limits them. That is a "them" problem.14KViews0likes2Comments100gig, but 30gig for streaming
Since streaming services eat up so much internet traffic, why not a plan that ups the amount of data we have so we can download updates and other apps that are usually one-time downloads, but limit the amount of data from streaming sites? So you get 100 gigs. But if you download more than..say...30 gigs from Netflix, any more data from Netflix gets throttled. More data available, but stops that bandwidth hogs.14KViews1like5CommentsRe: Need 40 gig plan
GabeUwrote: I'm waiting to see what the LEO services have to offer. Plus, HughesNet is sending a new sat up next year and they may have much better plans than they do now. We'll see. My understanding is that they are going to start in the Southern States. Which is odd as most of the dead areas are in the North as far as I understood. So I have to wait a bit after the rollout before I can get it. Wish they'd hurry up.15KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Need 40 gig plan
GabeUwrote: lighthope1wrote: I didn't know they had unlimited plans. I knew they had 150gig plans, but they nixed those pretty fast. Yep. They still have "prioritization" levels, where a subscriber "may" be prioritized behind others during periods of congestion once they reach the level for their particular plan. For some, it's not that bad when they reach that level, but others have their speeds plummet to nearly unusable levels (0.2Mbps, for example). By that definition, HughesNet also has "unlimited" data with "prioritization levels". I was speaking about "at speed" data.15KViews0likes0Comments