Is Pilot's WiFi fast enough to watch Hulu?

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  1. cplmac2

    cplmac2 Heavy Load Member

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    I just purchased an hour of Pilot's WiFi to test it out and see if it was fast enough to buy a larger package, and I'm very disappointed in the snail like speed of this wireless. Speakeasy shows a speed of 390/kbps which is about 200 short of what you need for minimum quality viewing of shows on Hulu or Fancast or any other decent streaming service. I have the Verizon aircard which is more often than not fast enough to watch TV, but the five gig ceiling only allows you about 20 hours of shows a month which is nowhere near enough to feed my habit. Has anyone found a Pilot with fast enough wireless speeds? I'm at the Memphis IN Pilot and there might be 40 trucks here so I doubt it's an overloaded network issue, anyone else have any experiences with the Pilot WiFi good or bad and locations?
     
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  3. PharmPhail

    PharmPhail Road Train Member

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    Are you on a contract with the verizon? If you can get out of it reasonably then switch to millenicom which is still unlimited.
     
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  4. cplmac2

    cplmac2 Heavy Load Member

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    I'm on a contract with Verizon, but I'd be willing to eat the termination fee to get on with a truely unlimited plan that had sufficient speed and bandwidth to watch TV. I've got a USB TV tuner but it's grossly incompetent. I've really been thinking about getting the VoQube, I already have a satellite box on subscription at home doing nothing but DVR'ing my shows while I'm away. May as well bring it with me and hook it up to the Qube and get TV in the truck.
     
  5. bubba mark

    bubba mark Medium Load Member

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    It's usually fast enough to watch Hulu. The trick is you have to pause it for a few minutes and let it buffer. That's what I use to do until I got my Sprint card.
     
  6. MrMustard

    MrMustard Road Train Member

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    Pilot uses a satellite feed at most of it's locations. It sucks. your results are about as fast as it gets, even when you are the only one in the parking lot. The Pilots operated by Bosselmans out in the flat states are a lot faster, and thy are free. I don't know why they all can't be like that.

    You spend too much time watching hulu with a sprint or verizon card and you're going to get hammered with overage fees if you have a new account, cancelled if you have an old account.
     
  7. GAPrincess

    GAPrincess Road Train Member

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    Wi-fi speed at Pilot is hit or miss. Some days it's like lightning, others it's slower than moleasses in January.
     
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  8. Crotts Trucking

    Crotts Trucking Medium Load Member

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    Until 5G comes out!! LOL
     
  9. Working Class Patriot

    Working Class Patriot Road Train Member

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    Yeah...always the next best thing....:biggrin_2559:
     
  10. panhandlepat

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    that has been my experience too watching netflix.
    when i'm in "ATT 2G hell" LOL
     
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