Posted on 03/12/2013 4:39:51 PM PDT by waterhill
I don’t know where you live but I’d suggest that you look to see if you have any wireless IPS’s in your area. I live out in the sticks and for the longest time it was dial-up or use my smartphone as a modem. Then we had a wireless ISP come into the area. We have 2 to choose from now. I pay $50/mo and have 5 meg downloads with about half that for uploads. Most of the time I see 3.5 to 4 down. Not the best but it is the only thing available besides satellite. No caps and at least for me a great company to deal with.
LOL...I live out in the boonies too and have a Sprint air card and do not like at all and have been researching Hughesnet.
Thanks for your comments...I’m convinced to keep the card.
I’m on Sat, my pings are 750+ms so onling gaming is impossible. 10 gig limit per month. On company Sat and because of overages we pay 5 figure internet bills monthly.
Very unreliable in bad weather, sats are a last resort choice.
Look for an independent wireless Internet provider instead, IMO. More speed, less expensive and more likely less socialist. Great for VOIP, too (Internet phone service).
I had Dish Network for five months. Not once was I billed the correct amount. I was on the phone over an hour each month, getting it straight.
I don’t recommend them for anything.
Bflr
We had an open maintenance ticket with Hughes for months. Finally, after a bit of research, I realized that they only had so many transponders on the bird and those transponders only had so much bandwidth. That’s when we chucked’em.
It is astonishing to me that they are still selling bandwidth. Periodically, we get junk mail from them trying to get us to re-subscribe.
Like THAT’ll ever happen!
There’s another satellite provider in our area called Wild Blue. We looked into using them but discovered that they are in the same wagon as Hughes. So, it was off to the AT&T store. AT&T is the only service provider in our area that provides 4GLTE service. We have had relatively few problems and all have been resolved satisfactorilly.
Have had Hughes for about 10 years. It works except in a driving rain, about same as knocks out DirectTv. Neighbor has WildBlue (renamed Excede) and his goes out if you say “rain”.
They seem to be getting more and more overlaoded as download times are sometimes slower than dialup.
Have a local wireless ISP, except our trees kill their signal. As soon nas can build a tower above the trees, its adious HughesNet.
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