Same problem here! I have been writing about music (blogging, social media) for over 5 years and need to listen to YouTube music videos, but since "upgrading" to Gen5 my bandwidth use is so much more than it was before even though I have not changed what I do on the internet. I also maintain social media accounts for clients, which means that I'm connected to those sites all day. With Gen4 I could do that but Gen5? No way. I looked at my HughesNet data meter a few days into my billing cycle and was shocked to discover how much bandwidth I had used... I would clearly use up the 10GB before I was even halfway through the cycle. I thought I had some kind of malware sucking the bandwidth. I ran scans, found nothing. I turned all my devices to airplane or powered them off. I turned off the modem at night or when I'm out of the house. I cut back on how long I would watch a YouTube videos, made sure my ad blockers were working, made sure auto-play, auto-download, auto-anything was turned off. Made no difference. Then I started researching and found out something I should have seen right at the beginning. Gen5 says if I was on social media sites one hour a day that would use up all my bandwidth for the month -- no email, no browsing, no movies, no nothing, just ONE hour of Facebook a day. https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started/find-right-plan ARE YOU KIDDING? It takes 10GB for Gen5 to deal with 30 hours of Facebook a month? I feel totally ripped off. This all started with a tech call to HughesNet to complain about a problem accessing websites with Gen4 and ended up with a recommendation to upgrade. The tech assured me that 10GB would be okay for what I used internet for and that Gen5 would solve my access problem. He was right about the latter, but he certainly didn't tell me that Hughesnet was going to provide higher speeds but suck up double (or more) the bandwidth for my doing the same things as I have been doing for five years. I would consider upgrading to 20GB, but that wouldn't fix the problem: Gen5 is a data sucker. For rural people with no ISP options, we are victims, not customers.
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