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Re: ViaSat (Wild Blue's parent corporation) announces Exede said by wildblueman :TThe caps are set to protect the majority of America. They are not going to allow a small percentage of the population to sit around all day and download music and movies or play online games that eat up bandwidth like it`s going out of style. Truth is, The majority of subscribers will not have any problems with the caps.
Advertisers and paid employees should not be allowed to artificially "boost" the perception of the service they sell. Especially when they don't live under the restraints of what they sell. No amount of hot air spewed forth from them will be taken seriously.
The point people are making, we have been living with low caps on Wildblue for years, then for several years they -promise- an upgrade that will change everything. Then they up the speed to something most people don't need, and REDUCE the amount of data available by a LARGE amount, increasing the price as well significantly. It was not what we were lead to believe. This was supposed to be an upgrade, but the speed is useless without quantity, that point has been made over and over.
And it doesn't take someone sitting all day to go over the caps. It can take a little over an hour every day for one person to go over on the current 512Kbps plan, imagine with more speed how easy the person can go over with about 23% less data available.
Bottom line, it was not an upgrade, period, for many of us. Every neighbor I know is thinking the same thing, some currently drive 30 miles one way to get to a free hotspot to have enough bandwidth for online classes. The offered new plans are not enough for what they do either. Is anyone that understands the limits of satellite asking for anything unreasonable, NO. We were expecting an increase of some sort, any kind, not further insane restrictions after years of being restricted. A downgrade and overcharging is not an upgrade no matter how they try to spin it to us. If so few use what's available as they say anyway, what would have been the harm of doubling the current caps. PERFECTLY REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS. |
