RRR,
How much more Fair Use do you get? How much faster is it? And most importantly, how much more does it cost? Gotta buy all new reciever etc, right?
I hate my HughesNet... contract is up end of March...
Be well,
David
It depends on the plan you use, I got the middle plan which gives me 15 gig per month anytime and an additional 15gig in off hours of 2a to 8a local time. My old plan went on a day to day allowance of about 350meg per day, so my son's tests or class downloads or grand kids playing a game on any given day would cause problems.
My old speed was "up to" 1.5 meg down and 650 or so up while the real speed was closer to 1.1 or so up and 450 or so up. The Gen4 is "up to" 10 meg down and 2 meg up. I have run some speed tests and you know these vary, but I have gotten a 10 gig, but more often 7 or so, not run that many.
The monthly cost is the same and the equipment can be rented or purchased. I think I paid about $100 or so with rebate, but I haven't gotten a bill yet. Overall we are satisfied so far, but only time will tell.
We have no other options, we can't get a cell signal and have checked every other option anyone could suggest. My brothers live out in the flat lands and have a "line of sight system" which works well, but in the hills, we can't get a signal.
I'm on Gen 4 now. It or Wildblue are the only game in our area....NO cell service. I had Wildblue before I had Hughesnet & switched because of their lies and BS. Hughes BS is a little more tolerable. Gen 4 works pretty good but not as fast as broadband in town. If we watch a Netflix movie on line it takes 10% of our monthly allotment of download limit. So we only watch them at the end of the month when we know we have plenty of time left on the plan. Overall we are satisfied now, but that might change as more and more customers come on-line with Gen-4. We have a 2 year contract, the up-grade cost $99.
Your experience pretty much mirrors our own so far. I know Hughes has a bad reputation, but it works fine for us so far and as mentioned, it's the only game around other than Excede and we were not impressed with their customer service when they were Wildblue.
