NuBota said:
Eric,
This is the last page I was able to see before loosing all access to the net. Luckily, I kept it up while all my other pages disapeared and was able to read all of it!!!!!!!
Thank you.
Monday morning I started building a deck for a client. I asked him what he was using for the net and he told me Verizon. Said his son is a tech for Trane Air Conditioning and is very knowledgable on it. So he called him over later in the day and he told me about it and then that Alltel, which is who I have for my phone, also has the same service, but unlimited downloads. He said it was rare that he went over his limit on Verizon, but with games or music, it happens.
I went to Alltel and was told they had a 15 day trial period that cost $25. The upfront cost was $135, but I get $110 back if I return in before 15 days. If I kept it, I fill out a form and they rebate me $100 for a total of $35 for the modem.
Monthly fee is $59.99 plus taxes and whatever for a total that should be around $65 or so a month. I'm currently paying $60 a month for HughesNet, so that's something I'm already used to.
Steph hooked it up to her laptop last night and was amazed at how fast it was and quickly the pages loaded. She's been on the router and dealing with issues on that front. We're not sure if it's the router or Hughesnet, but it wasn't all that great. With this, she was opening pages instantly.
I just hooked it up this morning and including downloading the software, it took five minutes. Really easy and simple.
I don't know how to test to see how fast it is, but we're both extremly pleased and excited about how much faster it is then HughesNet!!! Can somebody tell me how to test the connection speed?
They sell the router for $299, which seems kind of expensive to me. The clients son told me that he got his on Amazon for allot less then Verizon sells them and for me to shop around for one. I guess that's a new priority for me.
Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions. Now I got to figure out how to cancel my account with HughesNet and stop that monthly payment for something that never worked very well, if it worked at all!!!!!
Eddie