"In this work, simulations of propagation of helical Ince-Gauss beams, elliptical solutions of the paraxial wave equation that carry orbital angular momentum, were performed in order to investigate how the nature of these modes affect their performance as information carrying beams in free space optical communication systems. By varying the order, degree, and ellipticity parameters of the Ince-Gauss beam, we find that for a given mode, ellipticity value does not strongly affect the light spatial mode performance as information carrier and it is instead more strongly affected by the order and degree."