re: Anyone here get suckered into Hughesnet, or know someone who did?

I just looked on their web site and did not see an 80 GB plan. They only have a plan that was 20 GB "day time"/when you are normally on the internet and 20 GB between 2AM and 8AM. Total is only 40 GB. Looks pretty shitty to me. I live a place where satellite internet is the only option and I went with Excede (Wild Blue). It has a cap at 25 GB "day time" but also has unlimited download/upload betwee midnight and 5 AM. Which I use all the time. Data transfer is really fast at that time of night. Until you go over your cap during the month Excede is pretty good. It usually averages around 15-30 Mbps until you reach your cap. The cool thing is you can always buy more data if you run out, which I always do. It's expensive but its better than Hughesnet.

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