Regarding Rolling 30 day plan

[Astartiel]

From the horse's mouth:

No, the new DAP applies to the new Exede packages. We are keeping the FAP on the WildBlue packages unchanged. The main reason is, the two services operate on two completely different platforms, and are measured separately.

In other words, unless you want to pay $129.99/month for 25GB cap, most of us will stick with what we have. Faster speeds with a crappy bandwidth cap does not a happy consumer make.

[ronniemg]

Thanks for the helpful responses, everyone. I am now much more knowledgeable on the subject. However reading all this has really left me unhappy with Wildblue.

[amdman]

Far as the satellite itself it don’t care what package one has. Depending on the location in the USA where we located it should deliver up to either 5 or 12 down. Viasat won’t make as much on the $50 packages vs the $130 package. So they’ve lowered the caps hoping everybody jumps to the highest packages. I for one am not paying $130 for Internet service. I can hardly pay the $80 I’m paying now for a barely faster than dial up service. I’ll use my computers for solitaire & use the one at work when I need the Internet.

[GATOR1950]

What is so entirely unfair about the current fap policy is if I happen to exceed my cap by 10 kbs I get slowed down to barely dialup speed and then have to drop my total usage to below 70% to get the speed I pay monthly for reinstated. Then it takes up to 10-15+ days to reach the 70% usage due to having reached the overage during a 1-2 days of heavy downloads. The heavy usage will not be dropped until 30 days later. Then when you finally reach the 70% threshold it takes WB a week or more to speed up your bandwidth back to normal...That sucks!

[CelestialStorm]

Sucks yes. It should be an incentive to keep track of your own usage to avoid that penalty.

[Rebel Rider]

I can't wait til that logic is then met with the Federal Government telling you that you can only put so many miles on your vehicle in a given period, then they start taxing the hell out of you for everything over that limit...

We already have that. It's called a gas tax, and if we didn't have it, there would be no highways to drive on.


Rebel Rider