01-16-2008, 02:53 AM
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.
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.