Hughesnet... HIGH SPEED do you have it????

[ginbart]

Does anyone have it and what to do think of it. I was just told you lose it when it gets cloudy. The guy is coming this morning and I need to know fast. Thank you

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

I've had it for 5 years. I use it to work. I do lose it in very hard rain storms and heavy wind (if it is blowing hard enough to move the dish). I'd say 99.8% of the time I have good reception.

HTH


Rusty

 

[ginbart]

Thank you, I guess it's like the dish for your T.V. I think I will go with them.

 

[lockedhearts]

We have had it for a year, it WAS our only option due to where we live unless we wanted dial up. I LOVE the service and have only momentarily lost it during storms and that was once for about 5 minutes, I rountinely lose my tv in rain.
I HATE their customer No Service, it is located in the Phillipines and for some reason I can not get a payment to go through on their website and always have to call which wastes my time, phone minutes and frustrates me when I have to repeat myself to get them to understand.
Here in ATL we now have a new Wi-Max service and I am seriously thinking about checking that out, only because from what I have heard it is based totally in ATL and I can speak to someone here if needed.

But again, HughesNet has provided excellent Internet to us in the past year.

 

[gudrin]

Was our only option till the phone company got their high speed access out here. Not too bad, have to watch bandwidth you use though. No hardcore youtube stuff ( a little is fine) and completely forget about huge downloads (my husband likes to update our computers overnight sometimes). And no Pandora or Last.fm. Once you use your allowed bandwidth they slow you down horribly. Most people don't have that problem, but my husband with his line of work did. Also, you do lose it during some thunderstorms and some snow storms. We just learned to live without it during those times. Generally cloudiness itself was not an issue. It was more the precip that was an issue.

One good thing that we did after we had it for a long time was call the company and tell them that we have an offer for faster speeds for a cheaper price. They would lower our payments for X amount of time. You have to do this about every six months, and it only works if you've been a loyal customer for a while. You also have to sound convincing when you tell them that. They'll ask you to name the price and the specs on the other "deal." You have to know a little bit about it to make it sound plausible.

We switched so that my husband can work from home when he needs to. He has to connect to the University servers via a secure connection, and that just wasn't possible with HughesNet, it was too "laggy" as he says. Now we're waiting for the phone company to get their cable hooked up out here. It's up to the house and hooked up in the house, they just have a few more things to get it hooked up I guess. We're on their wireless (I think?) access right now. We have an antennae sticking out the side of our house to draw from the tower that's just a few miles away.

Oh, and there's a lag that you'll probably only notice if you work with other high speed internet. It has something to do with the way it uploads and downloads its information. My husband can explain it all. I just nod and agree and have a hazy idea as to how it works.

 

[sfw2]

We have HughesNet, too. We upgraded to a "small business" plan, so we don't have to worry about bandwidth, and we can all be on our laptops at the same. I sometimes work from home, and the phone company doesn't have high speed coverage in our neck of the woods. Also no cable available. Between satellite TV and internet, our yard looks like a dish orchard!

I agree that making payments online is a hassle, but the service is usually good. We rarely lose our connection. Make sure you keep the snow and ice off the dish!

 

[ginbart]

I'm all ready and I can't believe how fast it. I love it when I tried to download Fish World it took 5 minutes. Now it takes 5 seconds.

 

[lockedhearts]

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I knew I wasn't the only one having issues making payments online , they always tell me it must be my system!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I have WildBlue and have heard it is better and cheaper to get set up. I like WildBlue myself. I have had no experience with Hughesnet personally, but folks I know haven't been satisfied with their billing and prices. I don't know how much it is, but I pay $49.95 a month and got a deal when they were running a special for 2 year contract with FREE equipment and set up.

 

[ChicknJ]

Hi Ginbart, I have had Hughes net for 6 yrs, most of the time it is fine. The high bandwidth usage is a pain in my patoot sometimes. The only real issue I have with them is telephone service. Some of the techs are soooooooo bad.