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I'll believe it when I hear it from them ... View more

  "You asked, I answered.  It is not my opinion, but factual experience"   OK then. What are the facts? How much data passes through hughes on weekdays compared to weekends? ... View more

"Personal experience of 12+ years."   So it's your opinion.   I'm trying to get facts. Someone stated that weekends were busier than weekdays, because students are not at school. This sounds like a guess, and not a very good one. But I suppose only someone who works for hughes can actually provide us with the data used on weekdays versus weekends. ... View more

"Concentrating on traffic for retail sites certainly doesn't provide the overall traffic picture..."   So you saw this, then; that's why I included it.   "These are conversion rates and not usage rates per se, and there are other statistics on the page that show Sunday as an active day."   "I defer to the experts at Hughes who monitor their system constantly 7/24."   I'll hear from 100 other customers with opinions before I hear from someone who can provide hughesnet data.   ... View more

I'm not assuming they haven't looked into it. I'm not assuming they have no expertise in network management. Jeez, speaking of assuming!   What I KNOW is that they're in business.   A fair assumption would be that they'd rather sell tokens than add to the bonus time. We get 50GB for the 6 hours 2:00AM-8:00AM,  and 20GB for the other 18 hours, or 40% of the data for three times the time period. According to what I've found, although Sunday may be busy, Saturday shows to be probably the slowest day of the week.   "As for usage and congestion, weekends are pretty bad."   And you know this how?   ... View more

Here's another shot of traffic sorted by day of the week, from the point of view of ecommerce;   Google Analytics Day of Week Report Having analysed hundreds of websites, we’ve seen that traffic is highly likely to dip and have a lower conversion rate during the weekends. Traffic levels can also be lower on Fridays, when a large number of people are socialising, travelling, or watching their favourite TV shows. There’s often surprising statistics from Monday to Thursday, with certain days having much higher conversion rates than others. For example, we’ve seen that many people make the biggest purchases online in the middle of the week. There’s a great collection of Twitter & Blog post statistics over at BufferApp.com and Email sending statistics at Mojn.com, if you want to see how these specific channels vary at different times. The statistics for different days of the week are important to look at if you want an idea of how a visitor’s mood might change throughout the week. For example, the conversion rate for a teenage clothing website we promote increases by almost 20% on average on Thursdays. Why this happens, we don’t know. What’s important though, is that we know we can spend 20% extra per person with paid advertising on Thursdays, while ensuring that all social media channels save their best content for this highly lucrative day. Follow the steps below to create a day of the week traffic report or click here to add this report automatically in to Google Analytics once logged in:     These are conversion rates and not usage rates per se, and there are other statistics on the page that show Sunday as an active day. ... View more

I'm having a little trouble finding these statistics. If the Hughes people find that what you say is the case, I'll have to take their word for it. It just doesn't seem right, though. Here's a bit of what I've found already;   ... View more

Well, I think it's something they should look into. I doubt that weekend days are busier than weekends, but they should look into it. I myself have noticed that the service is much better on the weekends, and I use a lot less data for the same use. ... View more

Hughes should seriously consider moving ALL weekend data to bonus time. From 2AM Saturday morning to 8AM Monday morning should be bonus data.   Surely the net isn't as congested weekends as it is during the work week. This could subtract 8-10 days from the month, so that we'd have from   20 GB for 23 days (870MB/day) in months with 31 days and 8 weekend days, the worst case, to   20GB of data for 20 days (1GB/day), 30 day months with 10 weekend days, the best case. That would raise the daily allotment from around 666MB/day to 870MB/day to almost  1GB/day. ... View more