I am on Gen5 with 30 GB limit, which I use up in about 10 days without any big movie steaming. During these prescious 10 days I get between 17Mbps and 48Mbps. When I run out of allotment, I am throttled down to between 1.8 Mbs and 2.9 Mbs. Above 2Mbp and steaming on Amazon Prime is fine. But, around 1.8Mbs, it becomes annoying as the steam stops and starts. My question is why can't Hughes offer GEN5 customers the choice to throttle from the very beginning, say at 10Mbs, so as to prolong the allotment, then do the normal throttle to say around 3.0 Mbs?
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