Hughes Net

[my83zx]

I was wondering if anyone else on this forum has much or any experience with this outfit,and their supposed high speed internet connections.I upgraded to the newest modem recently(HN7000S),and also upgraded to the Pro Plan,but am really not experiencing any marked improvements.I can sometimes get over 800kbps download speed but average usually less than 100kbps upload.The only time I can get max readings is very early in the AM.I am about ready to go back to dial up for less than half the cost,as where we live out in the Boonies,cable and DSL not available.Would like to hear from others about their averages with them,so maybe I am having a receiver problem,or something of that nature.Maybe my dish needs to be realigned,but I can't get any definitive help from their Tech Support,even if I could really understand them.THANX!!

[Paul F.]

You've summed up Hughes.net PERFECTLY....

It's only "high speed" because they can't call it "barely better than dial up in many respects"..
Their 'tech support' is a bad joke.

Hughes.net has over-sold it's service, and has more customers than capacity to serve them with decent speeds, and it's only going to get worse before it gets better.

Use Hughes.net, but only because I'm in the same boat... rural, and have no other option. Dial up speed on the antiquated phone lines here tops out at 14,400 at BEST, so that's not a viable option.

[Zoidberg]

Has been discussed here before; do a "hughesnet" search of the forum. I've not seen anyone give it anything but poor marks. If, as Paul says, you're rural and have absolutely no other option, then it is an improvement over dial-up. But that's about it.

And, as Paul says, they've oversold. Badly. Their technology can't keep up with their marketing.

[archipirata]

Their service has gone from poor to bad to downright #*&%!
I agree from experience with Paul. If you have ANY other option, take it.

[wave rider]

hughes.net has a competitor, wildblue.com. Anyone tried them out?

As I relayed in an earlier thread; I've heard good reports of WISPs which use line of sight radio transmission as the internet carrier. They have coverage near me but not close enough...

=wr=

[Dick Moore]

I've used (and am using) Hughes for a few years, since it was Direcway. Dialup completely unreliable, and not going to get better. No DSL, no cable. Hughes is the primary sat comm provider for everyone else -- including all the non-essential services, so Wildblue is no better. Nothing even remotely close in cost is any better.

However bad it is, you're stuck with it. Their priorities are for 1) government, whom they can charge anything to, the Bushies don't care what it costs; 2) big business, who they can charge almost anything to, 'cause profits depend on it; 3) small business (but not small like we think of small -- think mid-cap here), who they can't charge as much to, but is still plenty profitable; and 4) the rest of us, who they can gouge because overwhelmingly, we wouldn't use them if we had *any* other choice.

Oh, am I ranting? Pardon me.

[DP]

>we live out in the Boonies,cable and DSL not available.
>No DSL, no cable

What about landline telephone? My DSL comes over my AT&T landline.

[my83zx]

DSL is only offered in closer proximity to the central office,and we are too far away.I have checked many times,and am told not available in our area!!

[Zoidberg]

Yup, you have to be very close to the office for DSL to work and, as you move further away, the speed drops. When I moved I had to go back to Comcast for internet (no complaints yet) because I had fallen out of their higher-tier speed to their lowest available ("up to" 1.5).

[Dick Moore]

DSL limit is roughly 15,000 feet from the digital switches, or about 3 miles. We are twice that, at least, depending on the actual route of the twisted pair....