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VeteranSatUser, Champion
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Anyhow, what general location of the country do you live in? Beams that cover the Appalachia area are the most congested.
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Stephen Rice, Champion
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This morning my speed was 8 mbps. Right now my speed is 0.16 mbps. No complaints from me.

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Stephen Rice, Champion
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Video streaming at 1 mbps is no problem as long as you don't try to do it in HD.
I could care less about primetime congestion though. I download all of my video when the network isn't busy so I don't have to worry about congestion.
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Sure it would be great to be able to stream on Viasat internet without jumping through hoops. Unfortunately, that is not always possible, and one must be creative on how to make it work!
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Could you explain what you mean and how you would queue up video and watch later?
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Depends how you want to watch. Do you want to watch on a tablet, computer, or TV? Tablets or computers you can download Netflix and Amazon content and watch later. If you want to watch on a TV, you need to download and then use a combination of Playon and Roku. If you do a search on this site, you should be able to find detailed instructions on how to do it.
Stephen Rice can explain better than I can!
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Would you mind explaining what Plex server is. Please see my comments to Champion (scroll up) Seems like a way to free up some of the prime time congestion if Via Sat would explain how to do so.
Thanks
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Its all about the bass, er the beam. So what i get and you get depends where we are.
In any case I think all the plans should provide a no less than speed, like 1.5 mbps down and 1 up.
Even at those very modest speeds you wouldn't get 480 without major buffering, throw in 2 or 3 devices on the web, your crawling.
Still waiting for V2's major sharing the workload impact..............
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Stephen Rice, Champion
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I expect speed to be somewhere between 1 to 10 mbps once prime time kicks in.

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If you exceed your data usage threshold you will be prioritized behind all other subscribers in your service that have not exceeded their thresholds. During peak congestion periods, your speeds may and can be as dismal as those that initiated this conversation. Also review the not so fine print at:
https://www.exede.com/documents/master/unlimited-data-policy.pdf
If you've been lured solely by the promise of "unlimited", understand what "unlimited" means in this context as well as the video streaming policies (throttling of detected video streams).
Before jumping head first into the pool, you might also want to review some of the other legal documents at:
https://www.exede.com/legal/
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If so, why stream two at once??
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Totally unhappy
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