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Getting out of Hughes Net
Self | 8-30-2016 | self

Posted on 08/30/2016 4:31:18 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine

Does anyone know how to get out of a two year contract with Hughes net.

The satellite service is terrible and they steal time.

Is there anyone out there that has gotten their contract cancelled?


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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Done, settled for a two hundred dollar fee, 250 less than court.


21 posted on 08/30/2016 6:05:21 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

File complaint with BBB. State it is ongoing problem. Keep a log of dates with outages and phone calls. Don’t want to see you stuck with cancellation.


22 posted on 08/30/2016 6:27:11 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: Mr. Douglas

Doesn’t cellular data cost a fortune? What about streaming video? Doesn’t that eat up all your data for a month in like a day? May I ask the details of your provider and plan please? Feel free to FReepmail.

Thanks.


23 posted on 08/30/2016 6:47:28 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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AT&T. Two LG G4’s plus a MyFi hotspot and 40 gig of data. $266 per month total.

You can forget about stuff like Netflix, but we do a lot of social media, FR, etc. and I watch a fair amount of youtube videos.

We often find ourselves having to be careful the last day or two because it’s $15 for an extra gig. And you can’t “opt out” of it.

One month we used up 90% in about five days because something went kinda goofy. We throttled the heck out of ourselves the rest of the month and did not go over. But it was hawrd. :-)

I have the my-fi connected to my desktop via USB and the printer hardwired to the desktop. It allows my wife to print via wi-fi to the My-fi.

I say that because I’ve learned to turn off the USB connection (you can select “charge only”) so that if my wife wants to print she just turns that on, and then turns back off. Other than that, she gets full wi-fi connectivity to the internet.

Then, when I want to use internet on my desktop, I switch it on. I turn it back off when I’m done. This prevents stuff from happening when I’m not using the computer. No windows updates, no torrent uploads, no nothing.


24 posted on 08/30/2016 7:03:49 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Why is Hughes so bad while DirecTV is so good. DirecTV may be expensive (they have rigged their packages and add-ons) but their service is excellent with outages only in a torrential rainstorm, and their customer service is the best.


25 posted on 08/30/2016 7:12:42 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

change your package to the BARE minimum....what? $9.00-19.00/mo? Then let the 2 years expire. If the cost of the contract cancellation fee is less than the remaining time left on bare services, then you just pay the contract breaking fee. Tell them you are going on vacation or a different job that you don’t need as much air time or bandwidth.


26 posted on 08/30/2016 7:15:59 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: trebb
Their service is a "last ditch" because there is nothing else available one. I've been suffering for years waiting for the cable company to start serving our area.

Get a ham radio license and get internet over the air via HMSS-MESH.

27 posted on 08/30/2016 7:18:05 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Good luck sweety, They’re the worst organisation I’ve ever dealt with. The Soros of the Internet.


28 posted on 08/30/2016 7:32:42 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Invictus Maneo !!)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Thank you!


29 posted on 08/30/2016 7:52:21 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: DCBryan1

Please tell us more, can you use Prime or Netflicks with that service? What is the cost? How difficult is it to get a ham license?


30 posted on 08/30/2016 7:21:41 PM PDT by Ann de IL
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To: Ann de IL
ARRL training.

After you get your ham tech (try to go for general so you can pick up HF bands)....go to THIS SITE to learn about ham radio-interent linking through HMSS-MESH. There are others also.

31 posted on 08/31/2016 5:23:33 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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