Viasat browser

[ergophobe]

The residential plans max out pretty low, so I don't really know about those.

The big difference is that with residential, your "bonus" GB are basically usable midnight to 8am and with a business plan, they must be used between 9am and 5pm, which works well for us.

So when I say we get 100GB, we get 75GB that can be used anytime and 25GB that must be used between 9am adn 5pm local time. All the business plans are similar.

The Business 100 (our plan) is $200/mo with various rebates added in. So for the first three months of the 24-month contract, it's $150 and after 90 days we get a $200 gift card and that's the price we got by leasing the equipment rather than buying it outright. So, of course, they make it complicated.

If we upgrade to Business 150, they say it will be $270/mo or, if we extend our contract rather than switching over within the current contract, $260.

[ergophobe]

Here you go.
https://business.hughesnet.com/sites/business.hughesnet.com/files/inline-files/HughesNetForBusiness_Gen5Flyer.pdf

That gives business pricing and seems to be accurate, though interestingly is missing our actual plan.

You'll notice that lease vs buy on the equipment looks like a 15 month breakeven, but you don't get the free install, so it's actually a 30-month breakeven on a 2-year contract and the $100 "lease set up fee" was never mentioned and not billed, so we didn't pay that.

[rcjordan]

Thanks. I'm helping a friend who moved out in the sticks.  He's signed up for Starlink and will likely go with that when it gets here.  There is a local isp that he's just signed up with that has an oddball line-of-sight network on a nearby water tower, he says it is performing OK. But we know the guy and it is a shoestring operation at best. Starlink will kill that biz.  I'd forgotten about Hughes.

[ergophobe]

Has he downloaded the Starlink app and checked his sight lines?

And is he... teachable? There are people to whom I have given the explanation that I gave above on in the Feb 25 post three times and they still ask me "Where is the Starlink satellite again?"

They can't wrap their head around the fact that the whole point of Starlink is that it is NOT geosynchronous and therefore is not in *a* place and therefore requires a large view of the sky.

I did an extensive search a couple of weeks ago during an extended Hangouts chat with a neighbor before his wife called for a "Starlink intervention" and found the best info I could find about obstructions.

See here
http://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/starlink-starts-to-deliver-on-its-promise/15/

[rcjordan]

Yeah, he's tech --he's the one that got my first domains on the internet (on a pharmaceutical company's server).  That was before ICANN. Or hosting services. Or much of anything.

I've sent him your obstruction research.