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kudos:1 | Yes I have a comment.... HN is out of their f'in minds! 3/300 for 189 a month? RIDICULOUS! | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by Cheese:HN is out of their f'in minds! 3/300 for 189 a month? RIDICULOUS! Said the person with a 8/2 connection for 57.95/mo.  | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by Rob:said by Cheese:HN is out of their f'in minds! 3/300 for 189 a month? RIDICULOUS! Said the person with a 8/2 connection for 57.95/mo. Exactly, I like my 8/2 for 57 a month | |
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Valencia, CA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... I'll keep my 3008/512kbps for $24.95/month thanks
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by en102:I'll keep my 3008/512kbps for $24.95/month thanks Sounds good! | |
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I think the 500Mb daily cap would be the bigger issue for me though. Back when I had DirecWay, they advertised speeds up to 1800 down, which is/was fast enough for general web browsing. But I couldn't download a windows service pack without exceeding the daily limits.
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by Camelot One:Thats only if you pay the $300 upfront fee, otherwise it's $209.99! Most people would call it highway robbery. I think the 500Mb daily cap would be the bigger issue for me though. Back when I had DirecWay, they advertised speeds up to 1800 down, which is/was fast enough for general web browsing. But I couldn't download a windows service pack without exceeding the daily limits. Yep, hell even some games in today's world, just UPDATES exceed that!   | |
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Columbia, PA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... Very, very true. I just downloaded almost 3 gigs from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace yesterday.
I'll stick with my 8/2 Comcast connection for $43/month. | |
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Laguna Hills, CA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... Duh, ya think? HN is for people who have no alternative. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by Dogfather:Duh, ya think? HN is for people who have no alternative. We know that, DUH, the price is still ridiculous for what it is. | |
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Laguna Hills, CA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... And I'm sure there are some who think $57 for 8Mb traffic shaped/capped service is ridiculous.
It's SRS and those prices are in line for SRS. No one is making subs buy a $180 plan just like they're not making subs buy Verizons $140+ plans or $400/mo T1s. | |
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Cleveland, OH | said by Cheese:said by Dogfather:Duh, ya think? HN is for people who have no alternative. We know that, DUH, the price is still ridiculous for what it is. Its called a Captive audience.Kind of like the way i felt in Vegas a few weeks ago  .
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Camden, TN | said by Camelot One:Thats only if you pay the $300 upfront fee, otherwise it's $209.99! Most people would call it highway robbery. I think the 500Mb daily cap would be the bigger issue for me though. Back when I had DirecWay, they advertised speeds up to 1800 down, which is/was fast enough for general web browsing. But I couldn't download a windows service pack without exceeding the daily limits. 500 MB a day = 14.65 GB a month. And people complain about possible 250 GB caps from cable | |
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Springfield, MO | yea if bet you could get a real T1 for close to what they want for 3mbps and it might be better >.> seeing as 500MB a DAY isnt much and 14Kbps cap after? you might as well use a 58K modem its faster... | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by elios:yea if bet you could get a real T1 for close to what they want for 3mbps and it might be better >.> seeing as 500MB a DAY isnt much and 14Kbps cap after? you might as well use a 58K modem its faster... It would be better, better uploads, better SLA, no caps on download limits, etc.. | |
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| Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by pabster:You're right. A full T1 is around $300 to $350, and you get an SLA too. These guys are nuts. Good luck getting that rate out in the middle of BFE. Thats where all these people are getting satellite in the first place. They aren't in the city. They are out in the sticks. Getting a T1 run all the way out there is almost double that rate depending on how far outside the city you are. | |
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Hingham, MA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... That's the key thing- HughesNet isn't trying to steal customers from Verizon, Comcast, TWC, or at&t, they're going for customers who have no other option except for dialup (and sometimes not even that)... That's what lets them get away with such huge costs. (Plus, running a satellite operation isn't cheap) | |
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OTOH sub-100 kbps uploads from WildBlue are sooo lame. Oh, and 1.3 second pings to anywhere. Plus, WildBlue's website isn't even hosted on their own network :/ | |
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Springfield, MO | Re: Yes I have a comment.... did you miss the its sat. some were "1.3sec pongs"
duh geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light
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Camden, TN | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by elios:did you miss the its sat. some were "1.3sec pongs" duh geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light lucky its not more then 1.3 sec actually geo synch orbit is 1/8 of a sec.
speed of light 186,282 mps geo synch orbit 22,500 miles 1/8 of 186,282 = 23,285. 22,500 is pretty close to 23,285 | |
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Springfield, MO | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by BF69:said by elios:did you miss the its sat. some were "1.3sec pongs" duh geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light lucky its not more then 1.3 sec actually geo synch orbit is 1/8 of a sec. speed of light 186,282 mps geo synch orbit 22,500 miles 1/8 of 186,282 = 23,285. 22,500 is pretty close to 23,285 true but thats as the laser goes
1/4 of a sec from base to your home not counting time it takes A. processing on the ground be for broadcast and B.Processing that the bird has to do
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Camden, TN | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by elios:said by BF69:said by elios:did you miss the its sat. some were "1.3sec pongs" duh geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light lucky its not more then 1.3 sec actually geo synch orbit is 1/8 of a sec. speed of light 186,282 mps geo synch orbit 22,500 miles 1/8 of 186,282 = 23,285. 22,500 is pretty close to 23,285 true but thats as the laser goes 1/4 of a sec from base to your home not counting time it takes A. processing on the ground be for broadcast and B.Processing that the bird has to do 1/2 sec and 1/2 down is more of just a good number to live by I know that but that's not what you stated
"geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light "
You didn't meantion any processing to be done. I assume you meant pure distance. At any rate latency would be at least 250 milliseconds more than any terrestial interent you could get. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... Okay, I was just contrasting it with what it *should* be, and was before WildBlue made changes, around 600ms. Which is much more useable IMO than freakin' 1300! | |
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kudos:13 | said by elios:did you miss the its sat. some were "1.3sec pongs" duh geo sync orbit is ~1/2 sec up and ~1/2 down at speed of light lucky its not more then 1.3 sec Pings for WB use to be around 600 ms until they started traffic shaping. Pings then doubled.
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| said by iansltx:Uhh, double? Try $1000-$1500 a month and that isn't even out in the middle of nowhere... OTOH sub-100 kbps uploads from WildBlue are sooo lame. Oh, and 1.3 second pings to anywhere. Plus, WildBlue's website isn't even hosted on their own network :/ Yea, it widely depends. The point is that you won't find $300-$400 T1 rates for people out in the middle of nowhere. Thats where people are buying satellite internet. | |
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kudos:1 | Re: Yes I have a comment.... I'm in nowhere and got quoted $555 for a T1. | |
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join:2001-08-03
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| Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by DrModem:I'm in nowhere and got quoted $555 for a T1. Yea, cause we all know the price in your area is universal for every sticks location. :P | |
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Michigan City, IN | Re: Yes I have a comment.... lol @500mb a day caps..i go threw that within 8 hours or so.
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1 edit | Where are you getting quotes for a T1 for $300-$350 total? My T1 is DIRT cheap at $360 plus $40 in fees. And that is for a short loop.
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Laguna Hills, CA | Re: Yes I have a comment.... That is what I have with a level 2 loop. I doubt I can get the same deal if I was 13 miles from the CO. | |
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Dogfather:Where are you getting quotes for a T1 for $300-$350 total? My T1 is DIRT cheap at $360 plus $40 in fees. And that is for a short loop. There is no way you're going to get a T1 for less than $350 out in the middle of nowhere. But those cheap speakeasy T1 lines are really bonded DSL lines. think of it as DSL with a SLA.
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4 edits | Re: Yes I have a comment.... said by dvd536:said by Dogfather:Where are you getting quotes for a T1 for $300-$350 total? My T1 is DIRT cheap at $360 plus $40 in fees. And that is for a short loop. There is no way you're going to get a T1 for less than $350 out in the middle of nowhere. But those cheap speakeasy T1 lines are really bonded DSL lines. think of it as DSL with a SLA. I use Megapath (Covad). Verizon mentioned T1 when they installed the additional box at the MPOE next to the NID but that doesn't mean much. My regular Cu loop is almost 20K ft.
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1 edit | i live in an area where satellite is an alternative and i have a t1 for $800/mo so those of you who think you can get a t1 for 350.. let me know where to sign up. | |
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As it stands, that's way too expensive, though I have no doubt that there will be some wealthy individuals out in the country who will get the 3 meg plan just because it's faster and has a larger cap....heh, if I was a multi-millionaire, I may do it.
I would have liked to see the 3 meg package have something like 400-500 kilobits down and a 600-700 MB daily cap though.
interesting step and advance, but it's just too expensive as it stands.
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Camden, TN | Re: This would be awesome if... said by Fox McCloud:the 2.0 Meg was $89.99 a month and the 3.0 Meg was $99.99 a month, and had the same caps. As it stands, that's way too expensive, though I have no doubt that there will be some wealthy individuals out in the country who will get the 3 meg plan just because it's faster and has a larger cap....heh, if I was a multi-millionaire, I may do it. I would have liked to see the 3 meg package have something like 400-500 kilobits down and a 600-700 MB daily cap though. interesting step and advance, but it's just too expensive as it stands. They should have just fazed out the 700 kbps adn 1.5 Mbps tiers then lowered the 1 Mbps tier to $60 made the 2 Mbps tier $70 and the 3 Mbps tier $80. Raise the caps to 500, 750, and 1000 MB then maybe you might actually get somewhere.
I have a friend who lives where this is his only option for broadband and sorry he'd rather have no intenet that to pay outrageous prices for satelite or have dial-up. While $80 for 3 Mbp and 1000 MB daily cap would still be BS to me it's an option he might actually consider. Too bad satelite companies don't actually want new customers. | |
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Glen Carbon, IL | If I were a multi-millionaire I wouldn't mess with satellite. I'd just get an OC3, or maybe higher.
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Laguna Hills, CA | Bring on the dummies... ....who talk about how their DSL, fiber or cable connection is superior and way cheaper.
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Arlington, TX | Dirt Cheap
That's a bargain, at those speeds, when you can't get anything else; out in the Hill country. I've priced Tachyon, for example, and believe me 200/mo is dirt cheap. | |
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Brookfield, VT | Re: Why are they calling it broadband? said by insomniac84:500mb a day is what you can do on a connection with a download speed of 47.4kb/s. So how is this broadband when a person with a dial-up modem can download more data in one day and probably enjoy a 1/3 of the latency? That's easy, I don't have to wait 24 hours to download 500mb. I seldom download any one 500mb file anyways and I'm much happier not having to take 10 minutes to download and view a one minute video
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Evanston, IL | Re: Why are they calling it broadband? That would be a moot point if you wanted the latest release of Fedora Core. Either way you'd be able to get a chunk of about 500MB each day.
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Brookfield, VT | Re: Why are they calling it broadband? said by reub2000:That would be a moot point if you wanted the latest release of Fedora Core. Either way you'd be able to get a chunk of about 500MB each day. Actually, for any file of that size I'd use a download manager and download it in the 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM FAP free time so I wouldn't be using up all my daily limit on one download.
For me, the bottom line is that I like the faster speeds than I can get with dial-up and until something better comes along that is available to me HN is the only way for me to get it. I'm not very fond of WB's FAP policy so I don't consider it an option.
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Camden, TN | said by insomniac84:500mb a day is what you can do on a connection with a download speed of 47.4kb/s. So how is this broadband when a person with a dial-up modem can download more data in one day and probably enjoy a 1/3 of the latency? because no one runs their connection 24/7 and RESIDENTIAL accounts weren't made for that purpose anyways. A person on dial-up wouldn't run thier connection 24/7 until they had line dedicated to strictly internet
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Hingham, MA | Interestingly, HughesNet is one of the few companies I see advertising that their service is "broadband", as opposed to "High Speed Internet". | |
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Camden, TN | said by siouxmoux:Wow what true ripoff. Why even bother with Hughesnet when you can go with wildblue $79.99 for 1.5/256k. Thier cap is only slightly better. 17000 MB per month DL and 5000 MB a month UL. Still a joke. Up it to at least 25000 MB DL and lower the price $20 and then maybe you got something decent. These people are paying $4 a gallon for gas and live out in the boonies do they think they've got $80 a month for gimped internet? | |
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Urbana, IL | How to get 2 up continually Well....if form follows function you will have to buy the 3 up plan in order to get 2 up after 30 days. LOL
I would be more tempted to step up IF they fixed their current problems first and I got close to my advertised speeds again everyday, all day, for more than a month. Can't see it happening though.
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Fairmont, WV | and if you actually use the bandwith limit... ...they throttle you into the stone age. I get 12 KB down from 4pm to midnight. Maybe my gateway is overloaded, who knows, it is just really bad these days on my end.
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And those prices are insane. I think I'd stick with Dial Up instead of going with that. And I hate dial up.
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1 edit | ..............!!! jesus ****ing christ.. seriously... w....t.....f....h!
LOL 200 for 3 mbps... HN must be full of retarded people, or their network is wholly inadequate for even the smallest amount of traffic (aka a s***work, really), in which case its time for them to upgrade or pack up their bags and go straight to money whore hell.
jesus, i only pay bout 48 a month for a 15 mbps/3 mbps
and i thought the price for gas was getting bad.
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Brookfield, VT | Re: wireless broadband said by tmc8080:cellular broadband & mr. linksys are making direcway & hn obsolete. we're increasingly in a world where there is at least one cheap ISP in your neck of the woods, and if not.. you'd be lucky to have electricity, an outhouse & a local walmart. watch the at&t and verizon commercials, they are trying to appeal to rural customers for wireless broadband.. no need for satellite based broadband at price gouging rates which have, if anything gotten more expensive while the trend is towards offering more for less. You are clueless. To compare broadband coverage with electrical coverage isn't even relevant or remotely accurate.
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Funny how when I lived out in the sticks, we had well water/cistern, fuel oil, a septic tank, and no cable TV. The only public utilities where Electric and Phone, not even trash pickup. We had to burn it or haul it to the dump. Yet 3mb from Embarq was not an issue. Nextel nor Verizon had cell coverage at the time in our area.
ISDN is a better value than sat. internet. Which is what I researched before I decided to ask Embarq about DSL coverage. Initially I wanted to see about IDSL (144/144), and about crapped my pants when they told me I was border line to qualify for 6mb, so I opted for 3mb with no sync issues.
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of course I DON'T download games or movies, but I don't have any desire too either. I can buy game son DVD... and buy DVD movies or rent off direct-tv pay per view. | |
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| | Good news for Canadians This is very good news for Canadians. As the world is well aware Canadians get the socks throttled off them up in Canada. The only options are dial-up or satellite internet from America. This is a pleasant surprise for the unfortunate people living in Canada. | |
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| | what RIP OFF of Prices I bet No one would Pay this 3.0 Mbps/300 K with amounts 500 MB files for 189.99...
it is waste Money !, we do Not trust any Hughesnet service which the speeds always goes numbers up and down and up like 200 1300 1500 500 300 600 it is waste ! ,,,, I would Stick with 1.5 Mbps | |
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| heimdm
join:2008-06-22
Martinsville, IN | Re: .....you've got to be kidding I am moving just 40 minutes southwest of Indianapolis. Looks like the only thing I can get is either HN or a T1. I got a quote for t1 plus local loop for $326.00. The full t1 is cheaper than a partial.. go figure. | |
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.....you've got to be kidding
....the clowns at Hughes can't provide existing subscribers service at speeds anywhere close to advertised and based on multiple contacts with their idiot techies they are fully cognizant of this fact and simply don't give a d*mn!