HughesNet Lowers 'FAP' Caps > Thanks for letting us know, Hughes!

Thanks for letting us know, Hughes!

Usually a change like this allows you to get out of contract.

Wouldn't dial up be better?

That all depends on the contract...not all contracts have that loophole.

And who knows...perhaps they ran their contract out and have been subscribing to it since the only other option is dial up.

Honestly...if it were this or dial up...I'd choose dial up.

I think my AT&T 3G speeds for my iPhone are faster and less limited than these plans. Ouch.

reply to DoctorDoom
I wasn't notified by any email.... I've been checking them here and there.

Nothing.

Oh, lucky you. >:

Still no luck here... And only Verizon Wireless, which I doubt is even EVDO speed out here, or if it is, it's Rev A.

reply to Thor79
AT&T has a "soft" 5GB per month cap, so yes your iPhone data plan is better than Hughes'. Though AT&T 3G is only available pretty much where wireline broadband is plentiful, and even then most places don't have it.

Oh, and do yourself a favor; put your SIM in an HSPA card if you want data speeds. The iPhone is HSDPA only so latency is 2-3x HSPA and uploads are a good bit less as well. Thugh HSDPA > HughesNet.

reply to DoctorDoom
I'm on the home plan - our cap is 200mb in a 24 hour limit. Their policy says they can modify the plan at any time with or without notice and to review the terms periodically - I reviewed them today and didn't see any changes - but I'm on the home plan. And speeds are NEVER as advertised - but it is better than dial up. However when they say you go down to dial up speeds - you usually get nothing because your pages time out - or the speeds are far lower than dial up. I would never ever ever recommend Hughes Net to anyone. I live in a rural area and it's this or dial up. I do a lot of research on the computer so I need to load the pages fast so I'm sticking with it. BUT I can't watch videos or podcasts or I'll be cut off (one or two will cut you off for 24 hours), have to do my downloads between 3am and 6am unless they're real small. There's no way to keep track of things - tried some of these free downloads to monitor and they didn't work. And Hughes net judges on this "rolling" 24 hours so I'm clueless when things start "rolling"...I don't play games - so latency isn't much of an issue with me. There is definitely some - and it isn't even close to being as fast as broadband (I'm in shock when I use my boyfriend's computer..it's like WOW...and he has verizon broadband)

I really wish a bunch of people could get together and somehow monitor things and start a class action suit..there's been success in lawsuits against Sprint and Dell lately..seems like the courts are getting a little more pro-consumer...

Although if all my computer file/records will be at the court's disposal..well..that's kinda eerie...but I might think about it...

If anyone knows any type of class-action suit going on or how to keep track of things email me at my blog »www.reportingstatistics.blogspot.com.

I'm putting up a new website on statistics (»reportingstatistics.com) and have a section on internet - think I'll dedicate a page to Hughes net when I get it up..hmmm maybe we can collectively report speed or something..I'll have to give that a thought...

But based on the Sprint and Dell decisions...I can't help but think there's potential for a class action suit...