 acadielPress fire to beginPremium
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kudos:1 | 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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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | 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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 djrobx
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I think he meant per day, or more specifically, "within a 24 hour time period". |
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Houma, LA
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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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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
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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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| 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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You can download 15 GB a month with a dial-up connection. |
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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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said by karlmarx: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. Sprint/Verizon/AT&T and their 5GB cap or should I say FAP, charges $12 per GB... so Hughes would be a bargain... nah, I was just kidding. |
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