hughsnet?

[ekimmoke]

Does anyone know the status of Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)? This is enabling broadband over existing electrical lines and seems anyway to have the advantage of having the infrastructure already in place. I know there were objections by HAM radio operators due to interference but was hoping the technology would progress to address the shortcomings.

Just wondering......

Thats what we had (BPL) through a company called IBEC... however they are going out of business... thats why I began looking into hughsnet

 

[jem041279]

Looks like you don't have much of a choice, but right now I am hating Direct TV cause it is raining like crazy and my LSU/Bama game is going in and out

 

[rtimgray]

At least you didn't miss LSU scoring.

 

[General Lee]

i just checked my internet speed today. its 4.4Mbps download ans 1.75 Mbps upload. super fast and around $70/month as i recall.
There is NO max download bandwidth allotment for the day or month... its unlimited.

I had to cut down 2 large trees when i installed it 3 years ago., and its mounted on my roof.

this is like 200X faster than dialup....

How do you check your speeds?

 

[Ken45101]

How do you check your speeds?

I use speedtest.net

Just be sure you notice what the settings are since it allows you to choose to report in kilo or mega and Bytes or bits. Quite a difference between those choices!

I just ran it and got these results with Hughes:
ping: 793 (horrible)
download: 75.2 kB/s (poor but better than dialup)
upload: 37.4 kB/s

Ken

 

[grsthegreat]

How do you check your speeds?

either speedtest.net

or

Speed Test | Bandwidth | Broadband Internet Services

this morning 4.74 Mbps down
1.94Mbps up

ping 47ms

 

[grsthegreat]

I use speedtest.net

Just be sure you notice what the settings are since it allows you to choose to report in kilo or mega and Bytes or bits. Quite a difference between those choices!

I just ran it and got these results with Hughes:
ping: 793 (horrible)
download: 75.2 kB/s (poor but better than dialup)
upload: 37.4 kB/s

Ken

yeiks,... thats not much better than dialup....

 

[Ken45101]

yeiks,... thats not much better than dialup....

Well dialup here was 18.4 k on a good day, 9600 baud on a bad day. Hughes does better than that.

Landline maintenance here is a joke. They literally wrap repairs to the mainline cable with trash bags I once called them and told them that there was a tree down on their mainline that had the line down in the creek water. Their response was "that's not our responsibility." !!!

Ken

 

[grsthegreat]

Well dialup here was 18.4 k on a good day, 9600 baud on a bad day. Hughes does better than that.

Landline maintenance here is a joke. They literally wrap repairs to the mainline cable with trash bags I once called them and told them that there was a tree down on their mainline that had the line down in the creek water. Their response was "that's not our responsibility." !!!

Ken

When i was with Verizon out here in the boonies...i used to hear other peoples conversations on my landline while i was talking to someone else. I called to complain and they told me..... "Your lucky you even have a phone out there". they finally fixed it...about 5 years later

 

[Code54]

Have Hughes Net and wish we had another choice - We have VERY poor speeds .06 mbps download speeds is not uncommon..... They have been working on it since Oct 2011, maybe someday they will fix it....