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12-27-2018
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12-27-2018
12:24 PM
Bonus speed was very slow this morning but seems to be OK again now. Our speeds are normally OK during bonus hours and only fast early in the daytime. Rest of the time it sucks!
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10-15-2018
01:42 PM
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Because of cost, we only subscribe to 20GB of HN data. It gets used up in less than a week. Now, we use our new larger cellphone data allowance for the first portion of the month {except for PC usage}, then switch to Wi-Fi. I noticed we were still losing almost 1GB per day of HN data. We are already at only 10GB left after a week. I used the Android app, "Who's on my Wi-Fi" and ID'd something called" Azure Technologies Inc" connected to Wi-Fi. After much investigation, this only showed when the TV was on. DirectTV is disconnected from Wi-Fi because it uses too much data. So is the Smart TV. I eventually found a reference online to Chromecast and Azure. Sure enough, when the TV was on, the TV's USB outlet was powering the Chromecast dongle and even though not casting and the HDMI port not being used, the photos it displays when used were still being accessed at a 1GB per day rate! I disconnected it unless casting and no unexpected data was lost yesterday. Our cell phones are scheduled to switch to Wi-Fi during the overnight 50GB period for app updates, cloud backup, etc. Hopefully, this info will be of use to others
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08-17-2018
05:02 PM
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We were at 30GB also and used it up real quick across the family. We turned off DirectTV that used all our allowance almost overnight at the beginning! So, we dropped to 20GB to save some money as the FAP speed was acceptable at the time and no data caps to worry about. Now, the whole system is really slow after a year and well less than 1MBps. No way can we stream anything and what takes a few minutes to download when within the 20GB realm and the early morning speed takes literally hours when in FAP mode. Unfortunately, we have no choice as we can only get a poor Verizon signal and the cabel company refuses to extend their network 1 mile up our road to provide cable. Considering we are in the 21st century and in the wealthiest country in the world and we all rely on internet these days and moreso in the future, the services in rural areas are appalling! Hoping for better low earth orbit satellite service in the future to stop being raped by Hughesnet.
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01-27-2018
06:22 PM
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I use Playon to download several movies a month overnight. When I later locally Cast them to my TV, this does not use any of my 30GB data allowance. I checked the usage meter after each time I watched the first couple movies (5GB) and the data allowance was not consumed. Initially, we did get screwed out of 20GB during one night by DirectTV and a PS4 update. Now all that is disconnected and we only use data via the PC and cell phones over WiFi
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01-27-2018
06:09 PM
Glad you have got a better service, for now. I recently downgraded our service to 20GB from 30GB. The speed is fine and fast in the early morning, but when the service is really needed in the evening, we are always at around 1Mbps and less. Funny how the upload speed never changes and is always around 3Mbps. It made no difference to our actual evening speed when we'd exhausted all our data last month and were supposedly speed capped. So why bother paying for something you don't get?! We use the Playon app to schedule and download movies/videos overnight and fully utilize the 50GB. I remember the WildBlue days back in 2010. Speeds really sucked and forget any Youtube watching! Today, HughesNet Gen 5 would be a useful and acceptable, if still a pricey, rural internet provider if it actually delivered on its speed promise.
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01-01-2018
04:36 PM
Checked with Speedtest and we are supposedly getting 704 ms, 7.7 Mbps fdownload and 2.68 Mbps upload. But just did a Testmy.net download speed test and we are actually at a whopping.... TiP Summary - Minimum :: 0.16 Mbps | Middle :: 0.33 Mbps | Maximum :: 1 Mbps
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01-01-2018
04:27 PM
Those speeds were what we were getting via Testmy.net over the Christmas period without having gone over our 30GB allocation! It amazingly sped up on the 26th. Good ol' Hughesnet ! We'll be running out of data before the month end, so it'll be interesting to see what the speed is. Managing on 30GB of internet is a real struggle after being used to cable at 100 mbps and 400GB per month. No more streaming, no more Youtube. 😞
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