I am currently dealing with a 'local' ISP who offers 4G Wireless Home Plans. We pay $70 a month for 75gb of data. With two (Sometimes three) gamers in the house, 2-3 Steam accounts, three laptops, a gaming PC, a Wii U, a PS3 and a phone, frankly we need more than 75gb a month. We make it work by never watching streaming video or other heavy data uses.
I occasionally check broadbandmap.gov to see if anyone else has moved into the area. I usually ignore satellite, because we had satellite for two years about 6 years ago, and StarBand was pretty bad. I understand they were good service for satellite, but our internet was incredibly unstable. Puffy white clouds would have us cutting in and out; latency meant no games.
I noticed Exede now serves our area and checked their page, though, out of curiosity, and I noticed their Liberty Pass plans.
Does that work the way it looks? Is it, effectively, unlimited data usage per month? I am wholly willing to settle for 1-5 mbps - the 4G Wireless we're using now only gets us 1.5-2, all I care about beyond that is what Exede's limit is. If we got Exede, we would probably buy their cheapest package a month, and keep a cheap package from our local ISP for playing games on while using Exede to stream video, use the internet for basic things and such.
Has anyone discovered the point at which Exede goes 'Hey, whoa, you're using too much data per month, slow your roll or we'll have to make you upgrade your package'? Because I'm not gonna lie; after decades of being unable to really watch video whenever we want, we would all probably be BINGING Youtube and Netflix for a while. Will Exede take exception to that kind of use? They constantly mention that heavy usage will be throttled and heavier users will be throttled more, but I can't find anywhere on the site they actually name those limits. Has there been enough experience with their Liberty Pass for people to have practical answers through experience, yet?
I just would really like to know if the Liberty Pass would let us have the kind of freedom in how we use the internet that my family has never actually had before, or if it's just very nice-looking bait.
↧