said by clarknova156:250-500 megabytes a day? Wow never realize how screwed sat users were , I blew threw that in the last 5 minutes on FiOS. 25GB is far from decent but not having to worry about daily caps is a different side of the coin and most users will not use more than 25GB a month , but of course anyone with a Netflix account and viewing HD movies can totally blow that cap out of the water.
The speed difference is there 1.5mbps (which is the speed I was getting with Road Runner in New York state back in 1998) and up to 20Mbps with this new sat in place is quite a difference in speed. All around sat service is a royal screw job but the only option for those in boonies... if I had to choose between 1.5mbps with 250-500 meg caps during the day and 20mbps and 25GB Download cap per month the faster speed would probably lure me over.
You are not comparing Apples to Apples. You are comparing an $80 plan to a $130 plan. The $80 plan on Wildblue is 15GB, but it is not really 15GB because the upload will count towards that number as well. Hughesnet's $110 plan(which is still cheaper) offers 2MB and 450-900MB a day. Also users are reporting getting sometimes double the speed of what they are paying for, so basically they are under promising and over delivering. Something Wildblue has a big rep of doing far the opposite. On top of that you can download FAR more per moth with Hughesnet. The reason is they have a FAP free time where the data doesn't count towards your FAP at certain times of the night. This allows you to schedule big downloads to run then and you can download as much as you want. This IMO gives Hughesnet the edge. If Wildblue did the same(which they don't appear to be) it would be a different story.
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