acadiel
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join:2002-06-22
Bloomington, IL
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| 300MB
300MB - a month?
Now, that's insane. It makes the Verizon/Sprint/AT&T 5GB caps on their Aircards look like its generous.
If I were in a VZ/Sprint/AT&T coverage area and it was only satellite versus using a cell carrier, I'd get the cell carrier and one of those Linksys routers where you plug the PC Card into.
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
clubs: | WHAT?
are they joking or what are they smoking?
Nail meet coffin. |
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slcpd6469
join:2003-09-25
Saint Louis, MO | Can't even download MS Updates
With a cap like that downloading XP SP3 is out of the question. |
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ztmike
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join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN | pot meet kettle
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I love being right.
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Kearnstd
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to acadiel
Re: 300MB
i can burn up 300mb in a day without WoW, Vent, and Torrents. i mean Youtube alone could burn that up.
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davepk
join:2003-10-02
Santa Cruz, CA | Holy cow
Holy cow,
$189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed.
And then being forced to wait a whole month for the privilege to do it again?
Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | reply to acadiel
Re: 300MB
I think he meant per day, or more specifically, "within a 24 hour time period". |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  CAPS
That is per day, not month. |
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Chris 313
Come get some
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| reply to acadiel
Re: 300MB
said by acadiel  :300MB - a month? Now, that's insane. It makes the Verizon/Sprint/AT&T 5GB caps on their Aircards look like its generous. If I were in a VZ/Sprint/AT&T coverage area and it was only satellite versus using a cell carrier, I'd get the cell carrier and one of those Linksys routers where you plug the PC Card into. I agree. What are these people smoking that makes 300MB a day or worse, a month seem resonable. I just downloaded a 952MB demo off PSN and at 300MB in a day or month, I'd have blown right through that.
In a situation like this, I'd rather have dial up or nothing and save my money for a move elsewhere to where I could get a better connection.
The money paid for these tiers, the caps are rediculous. Now I see that Comcast and their doings are not bad at all.
These people have it much worse. |
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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3 edits | reply to acadiel
I hate to rain on the parade here. But the numbers in the article are PER DAY and not per month as said(since corrected) in the BBR news post: »HughesNet Lowers 'FAP' Caps
quote:
HughesNet actually lowered the monthly consumption limit for some users on their most popular Pro (1Mbps, $70) tier from 375 MB per month to 300 MB.
Here is the info from the HughsNet web site:
»www.hughes.com/HUGHES/Rooms/Disp···FA5369]]
Hughes assigns a download threshold to each service plan that limits the amount of data that may be downloaded during a typical day. While even the daily caps are somewhat low, they don't require the panic based on the assertion that they were MONTHLY numbers.
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Anon007
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| INSANE!!
However Sign up for this service most be really DESPERATE,  might as well bend over to the company and get rape the right way LMAO  |
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davepk
join:2003-10-02
Santa Cruz, CA
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Re: Holy cow
There, Fixed it.
said by davepk :Holy cow, $189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed. And then being forced to wait a whole DAY for the privilege to do it again? Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. |
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ztmike
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join:2001-08-02
Michigan City, IN
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Re: INSANE!!
said by Anon007 :However Sign up for this service most be really DESPERATE, might as well bend over to the company and get rape the right way LMAO Without lube. 
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
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Re: 300MB
Do the math. That's $8.00/GB/month. Hell, that make COMCRAP look good, which is about $0.28 cents per GB. Of course, neither of them hold a candle to FIOS, which cost $0.00184 (1/10 of a penny) cents per month per GB. So hughesnet costs 28 times MORE than Comcrap, and 4,320 times more than FIOS on a PER GB basis. If that's not an argument for a real nationwide FIOS rollout, I don't know what is.
In other terms get 28 hughes satellites and you can hit comcraps 250GB Cap. Get 4,320 satellites, and you can hit what the 'average' FIOS can do in a month.
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individual77
| how to make money 101
You take an internet connection and then you create this drama about its value, and then charge people lots of money.
In other words, you get the customer to PAY ATTENTION (not just pay money).
Once you have the customer's attention, you create this drama -- "You want more, but reality is such. Let's cooperate and I'm sure we can work something out". See, they're actually being generous!
An internet connection is an internet connection. It's either reliable or not, SLA or not, and the network it's attached to is either capable of handling the load or not capable of handling the load.
See, you get everyone focused on the limits, and in such a way differentiate and create value.
I could probably state that focusing on the "injustice" of various situations is probably the most effective way of generating interenet traffic. The minute the internet becomes "no big deal", that's pretty much the minute that the insane bandwidth consumption stops.
Maybe all this talk of caps is actually increasing internet usage and giving more folks the impression that there is something of value to be had here? |
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a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY | reply to Matt
Re: CAPS
YAWN, might as well pop out a BGAN terminal and not be subject to some sort of stupid AP. It's pseudo-portable as well BTW.... |
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Xizer
join:2004-02-05
New York, NY | reply to acadiel
Re: 300MB
You can download 15 GB a month with a dial-up connection. |
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Xizer
join:2004-02-05
New York, NY
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Re: Holy cow
said by davepk :Holy cow, $189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed. And then being forced to wait a whole month for the privilege to do it again? Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. I don't understand how they stay in business. |
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dMarks
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join:2007-02-09
Leslie, MI
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| Glad I got out
I got HughesNet February of last year, Speeds never, ever, were as advertised. Most times I got half or less, sometimes below dial-up speeds non-FAPed. Dumped them this February after going through my state's AG and then the BBB. So glad I can get wireless now (non-capped with Millenicom on Sprint service).
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Siryak
join:2005-11-26 | reply to karlmarx
Re: 300MB
Uh they don't serve all of their customers that amount of bandwidth with just one satellite. Spaceway 3 is just their most recent satellite. So it would actually be more. |
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