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bajadudes
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bajadudes

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Starbands policy

Is a 1GB per rolling 7 day average on the $49 per month plan and 3.5GB per rolling 7 day average on the top tier $129 plan (soon to be reduced to $99).

exceed it and you get throttled to dial up speeds until you reach an exit average of 650MB per 7 day rolling average for the $49 plan or an exit average of 2.24GB per 7 day rolling average.

Each day at midnight your average for the past 7 days is calculated.

Seems like a good compromise between HN and WB and it lets you download large files, updates etc.

On WB if you use yours up in a week or two you are screwed the rest of the month

Sircolby450
join:2005-11-26

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said by bajadudes :

Is a 1GB per rolling 7 day average on the $49 per month plan and 3.5GB per rolling 7 day average on the top tier $129 plan (soon to be reduced to $99).

exceed it and you get throttled to dial up speeds until you reach an exit average of 650MB per 7 day rolling average for the $49 plan or an exit average of 2.24GB per 7 day rolling average.

Each day at midnight your average for the past 7 days is calculated.

Seems like a good compromise between HN and WB and it lets you download large files, updates etc.

On WB if you use yours up in a week or two you are screwed the rest of the month
How is the speeds and latency on Starband?

bajadudes
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bajadudes

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the $49 plan is advertised as 128Kbps up and 512Kbps down, realistically you will see anywhere from 70 Kbps up to 120Kbps up and 250 to 500Kbps down on average. some times you will see higher on the download but you can't count on it

the $129 plan is advertised as 256Kbps up X 1Mb down, realistically you see about 150 to 250Kbps up and 750 to 1.2 MB down on average.

ping times are mostly around 800 millisec but there is a bit of jitter with times going up as much as 2.5 sec about 10 to 15 % of the time

slightly better on the ping times with the 129 plan
88615298 (banned)
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said by bajadudes :

Is a 1GB per rolling 7 day average on the $49 per month plan and 3.5GB per rolling 7 day average on the top tier $129 plan (soon to be reduced to $99).
1 GB every 7 days is only 4 GB a month. That sucks worse than HughesNet.

The benefit of broadband is faster downloads but if you download stuff you hit the cap quickly and thus are throttled to dial-up speed anyways. It seems dial-up is better since it's cheaper. Small files that you download you could easily do over dial-up anyways. If my only choices were dial-up or satelite I'd just stay with dial-up.

bajadudes
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bajadudes

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On HN you effectively get 200MB per day for $59 per month on the home plan or 1.4GB per 7 days. On *B you get 1GB for the $49 per month plan.

The difference is that with *B you can at least download files larger than 200MB without hitting the Fap wall and to a lot of folks that is a big difference plus it's $10 bucks cheaper.

If you never download more than 200MB in a day then yes HN may be a better option,,,at least theoretically if you don't mind also talking to TS in Pakistan when you do have issues.....LOL

To those that would say dial up is better than sat they obviously do not live in rural areas where the copper delivers 19Kbps at best and there are frequent dropouts.

Lucky are dial up customers seeing 50Kbps on a consistent basis and that don't have to log in every 3-4 hours because the ISP dropped them.