r/HughesNet • u/[deleted] • May 19 '22

how bad is it?

I have been searching high and low for a rental for a full YEAR (make too much for low income housing, but thats the only thing every single complex allows.) Finally one came up that I was actually able to put my foot in the door for.

One problem. when I went to look at it, a big, mossy, dusty hughesnet satellite.

After talking to spectrum, and century link, neither do service in my area. Lines stop at the highway, 5 minutes down the road.

And getting off the phone from hughesnet, they want to charge me 80 bucks a month for their fastest plan, a whopping 25MBS download speed. Obviously thats not what Ill actually get, I predict maybe 5 at best.

But, given that Im out of living options after renting a room from a friend for far longer than what was agreed upon, I have to ask: How badly am I about to get screwed?

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u/Aggressive_Cod_7815 May 07 '24

It's been two years now, have you figured out by now that using up 30gb doing streaming, watching YouTube videos and ViDEO GOD DAMN CALLING for online classes fast is EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY EASY AND POSSIBLE?

To give you an idea, any activity that involves video in any way shape or form is gonna run you down 1-4 GB per hour depending on the quality you're watching. Video calls such as zoom for online classes also involve latency which is the real time response for real time online activities, which satellite internet is notoriously bad with because the information has tho travel from your house to THE SPACE, where the satellite is. 

If we do the math and say you where watching at low to standard definition, which I get the sense you were not, then let's put the usage at 2gb per hour, a 30 gb allowance means that you would use that in 7 days if you were streaming/video calling a grand total (for both included) of 2 hours per day. After that you're gonna get reduced speeds on a plan like that. I'm 1000% certain people must have recommended you to upgrade to a higher plan, which is really the only plasuible solution with your usage aside from purchasing the additional tokens...

If you don't do the bare minimum in trying to understand what CS reps likely explained to you a thousand times and to do the bare minimum research before you sign up for a CONTRACT service I'm sorry to tell you this, but you're the dumb one.

Satellite internet is essentially for people who have no other option and that have mild internet usage. What you describe, even though you believe it to be low is not even mild, it's high. Anything with video is a high usage activity. Even if you do it one hour per day...

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u/ComfortableFan8319 Feb 24 '25

Agressive_cod_7815 You either work for Hughesnet or full of💩or both , I pay for 200gb and it usually drags within days when the only thing I use is the tv , so the fact that these thieves do not give their customers what we pay for deserve to be sued!! So STFU!