HughesNet pricing HughesNet offers four packages that start at $49.99 per month. All plans include 25 Mbps download speeds and 3 Mbps upload speeds, but the plans differ in how much data can be used.

Those kinds of complaints are common in online reviews of the company's service. HughesNet offers tiers of service that promise download speeds ranging from 1 to 5 Mbps.

Walter says she paid $59.99 a month for a HughesNet plan that offered maximum download speeds of 700 kbps to 1.5 Mbps. After the company allegedly slowed down her connection for exceeding caps ...

Hughesnet's subscriber base drops below 1 million despite its new Jupiter 3 satellite facilitating faster speeds. Still, its quarter-over-quarter decline was not as bad as last year's numbers.