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Topic: Upgrading from home to Pro Plan...Is it worth it?  (Read 1545 times)
mbeer
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« on: July 14, 2007, 08:07:25 AM »
Is it worth the extra $20 bucks a month to upgrade from the home to the Pro plan at Hughes? Will I see any noticable differences do you think?
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« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2007, 09:21:55 AM »
You should see big differences, if it all goes right.  Very Happy

Good luck.

So post a speed test.  Shocked
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« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2007, 09:27:09 AM »
Cool.  I was not sure if the extra $20 would be worth it or not..you can't believe what Hughes says anyways.  Maybe I will give it a try and post some speeds.
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« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2008, 03:18:59 PM »
Well I just upgraded from the DW6000 home plan to the HN7000S pro plan. I am very disappointed.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 331 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 40 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/03/25 - 3:17pm
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 25.6 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 74.143 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 33.88 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com)
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User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
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« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2008, 04:43:55 PM »
Long time no see tm24ns58. those speeds suck. I no you were over 1 full meg before.  GEEK!
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« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2008, 05:15:25 PM »
Yes indeed I was Tommie. I have no idea what has happened. I have a fresh install of Vista right now without any tweaks at all except for Firefox tweaks.
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« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2008, 05:34:53 PM »
Quote from: tm24ns58 on March 25, 2008, 05:15:25 PM
Yes indeed I was Tommie. I have no idea what has happened. I have a fresh install of Vista right now without any tweaks at all except for Firefox tweaks.

tm24ns58 it would be likely to say you may need to tweak the system (dish alignment) for the new modem especially if you changed transponders. I don't remember Hughes telling anyone about this since there is really no way of knowing until after the upgrade but I do remember some having realignments after upgrades. Also sometimes it may take a day or two for the system to stablize, it does some seff adjusting.
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« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2008, 09:25:23 PM »
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Is it worth the extra $20 bucks a month to upgrade from the home to the Pro plan at Hughes? Will I see any noticable differences do you think?
Hit or miss if it will improve, more toward the miss side. I would save the cash as you would be better off with out the upgrade.
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