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@GabeU wrote: Hughesnet isn't going to offer what they can't support.  Larger plans means more people trying to stream, which means the system slows to a crawl for every person utilizing it.  The infrastructure must be in place to support larger plans before they can offer them.   Trying to throw 50,000 cars per hour down a road that can only handle 10,000 doesn't tend to work very well.   And while everyone certainly has the right to do as they wish, and I commend you for doing your homework, keep the old saying "The grass isn't always greener" in mind, as sometimes, when you get there, you find that it was only painted.       GabeU, you are such a HughesNet apologist.  To say that "Hughesnet isn't going to offer what they can't support." is ridiculous on the face of it as I can attest by regularly getting single digit Mb/s speeds and in the last 3 weeks speeds measured in kb/s on a 25Mb/s plan.  You are correct that the "grass isn't always greener."  I switched from Exede to HughesNet because they offered the 25Mb/s plan before Exede did.  That was big mistake.  I was on 12Mb/s plan and rarely dropped below 10Mb/s.  Right now I am at 2Mb/s.  That is less a tenth of the advertised speed. ... View more

@MarkJFine wrote: Nowhere on their site do they offer 150GB. Perhaps you saw their 'unlimited' up to 25Mbps plan for $150/mo. And if you read their description of 'unlimited' it really means they can drop the speed to 1-5 Mbps at any time. For a short time Exeded (now Viasat) did offer a 150GB plan for $100/month before the unlimited plan was offered. ... View more