I have Viasat and I had Hughs net and they are unusable junk. They don't 
offer high data plans and their speeds are not as advertised and they 
have very high lag and very high pings.  Hughs net highest data plan is 
only 50 gigs per month and they give you free 50 gigs at night from 2-8 
am.  How many people are even up at that time?  tTheir site says that 
when you go over your data your speeds will be reducd to 1-3 mgbs but 
you will go down to killobytes.  wWhen I was not over my data my speeds 
were soposed to be 25 mgbs but that was not the case.  I have Viasat and 
I pay for 30 mgbs with 100 gigs permonth.  Again my speeds are not as 
advertised.  When I go over my data my speeds are soposed to 1-5 mgbs 
but I again go down to killobytes.  At night my speeds go down to 2 mgbs 
and kilobytes.  I have had Viasat for about 3 months or so and I am on 
my second modem.  mMy first one died so I had a new one installed.  My 
first modem was a used one they knew had problems with.  When I had my 
Viasat installed the installer did not put ina new coax cable.  Neither 
did Hughs net.  The cable that I have is one that I had for direct tv 
about 5 years ago. The cable is bad and Viasat refuses to replace it 
with a new cable they say it's fine.  tThe cable atenuation is soposed 
to be 37.5 and I get 0.0 db gain.  On sattlite the pings are soposedto 
be between 500 and 650 milaseconds and on both Hughs net and Viasat I 
have pings from the uper 600s to over 1,000 milaseconds.  Viasat has 
blocked my phone number because they did not like the way that I talked 
to their reps.  They told me that they will not unblock my phone 
number.  I turned them in to the Fcc 15 complaints but so far nothing 
has gotten done about my problems.

BBrian Sackrider


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