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Re: Echostar 24 implementation - beam #68 overloaded
Maybe it is maintenance that involves swapping out IPGW servers or turbo buffers and the IPGWs available are reduced. Could there be some maintenance or upgrades happening at SDO? What about the other beams that share this gateway, like 64 and 66? If folks on beams 64 and 66 also see something like this maybe this is the result of some maintenance at the gateway?Re: New 75 GB plan
There is another thread with details. Here is the information: https://support.hughesnet.com/en/faq/account_billing/planchange "The new plans include 50% more data than the previous plans." So it sounds like the 50GB plan becomes the 75GB, and I suppose 30GB becomes 45GB, 20GB becomes 30GB, and 10GB becomes 15GB. The change is happening starting February 1, 2022 and they are sending notices 30 days before, so I think I just received the notice a few days earlier as my plan rolls over sooner than most. I thought it might be just certain beams because I heard of the special NY plan, but it seems to be everyone. I thought I was getting something super-exclusive for a little bit -- heh hehRe: New 75 GB plan
Based on a discussion in "myAccount and Billing" this is a plan transition for everyone, not just birds with fancy feathers on empty beams. I guess in a few months maybe I will take a gander at the handful of more crowded beams on TestMy to see what the effect has been on them. I guess empty beams will not show any change. Any old professors here with an archive link to the old forum site of those other guys? They dropped that forum a while back, but I remember when they offered a super plan (freedom?) and posts began popping up like mushrooms showing people attempting to download over 1TB with that crazy plan on a satellite with less bandwidth than J2. Any thoughts about the new plans on your beam?Re: New 75 GB plan
I thought there would be more crowing about this new 75 GB plan as it has me excited. Mr. maratsade seemed interested too, but edited his post to N/C. Was this a super exclusive offering only for birds with proper plumage? I can understand more crowded beams not getting something like this, but aren't there a good number of less busy beams yet? Based on testmy data, it looked to me like there were a fair number of beams without a heavy load as of 18 months ago. Has nobody else received a letter about this?New 75 GB plan
How many folks plan to move up from the 50 GB plan to the new 75 GB plan? I had not heard of this before, but I will be getting this new plan. Is this plan of limited availability? I heard of a few unusual plans available in certain states, anybody know if this new plan will be widely available, or only available in sparsely populated beams?Re: Unexpected data reset this morning
bookdiva96 wrote: Yes, we are on Beam 82. Still weird! Seems this was something that happened on Beam 82 then. I wonder how many people had their full monthly data restored? If it was everyone AND they notice and start using the free data up quickly it could slow things down a bit until everyone gets back on their normal schedule. Of course many folks might not have noticed and so will not be tempted to binge download. Any guesses as to what percentage will notice the data reset?Unexpected data reset this morning
My month starts on the 2nd for the billing/data reset, but this morning my data reset again as though it is the beginning of the month. I notice that the data reset at 12:30am then briefly reverted at 2am to where it should be then reset again 2:15am. Not sure what to label this as since I think my profile is fine? Could someone check that my account did not get crossed with someone else and that extra billings are not happening to someone? I still have plenty of GB as I do not come close to using my amount up and so do not need a reset to full of my data amount (or want an extra monthly bill :-) In checking in, I see by billing period still seems correct in the graph below, and no new unexpected invoices showed up, so I am guessing maybe someone accidentally hit a button and reset my data to full? Although I guess it is nice to get free data, this thing could cause trouble if it gets out of hand :-) Thanks! Here is a snap shot of this morning (start time in Eastern Time) Column N shows the unexpected restoring of Anytime data -- Bonus GB reset too, of course. Blacked out columns are just the usage of the top 5 devices from the last 24 hours. Here is the graph from the Hughesnet portal of data usage which shows my data cycle begins on the 2nd, and the restore of my data in the middle of the month:
