YouTube - HughesNet Commercial
Probably the most deceptive ad on television today. Hughesnet is not broadband. When that woman says "You're welcome" most Hughesnet users see red and scream!!
On the Hughesnet web site, where they sell the service, it says: "we do not recommend the following applications for use over HughesNet:
* Real-time online gaming, particularly "twitch" games such as Quake, Diablo etc.
* Real-time collaboration and conferencing, such as NetMeeting or videoconferencing
* VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) Internet phone service
* Online day trading
That's Hughes talking. So Hughes admits the service is not broadband as most people understand that term. Yet they continue to runs adds where they assume the viewer is going to say "Thank you" for selling me this?
Let us be clear:
* Hughesnet does not support VoIP or telecommuting via VPN.
* It is not a substitute, or viable alternative, to wired or WiMax land-based broadband connectivity.
* You cannot watch a full length hi-def movie on HughesNet or play Internet radio all day.*
* You cannot keep your operating system and applications automatically update on Hughesnet.**
* You cannot watch YouTube for a couple of hours.**
And you can't do anything on HughesNet when the weather is bad or there is ice on the dish. And it will cost you $80 a month for 5 gigabytes of traffic per montn, that's 425 megabytes of daily traffic (for reference, one hour of Internet radio=50 megabytes, one 5 minute Youtube video=40 megabytes, the last Mac OS upgrade was 600 megabytes).
**If you exceed 425 megabytes, for example if your operating sytem does a 500 megabyte update in bakcground mode, then your connection is throttled for 24 hours and won't get more than dialup speed during that 24 hours.