internet

[grainger12002]

any success stories with hughesnet sattellite service, ? I have gen 4 for almost 3 years and its been nothing but a monthly pita, I hate to spend month after month on this but deregulation in northeast CT let charter off the hook from completing the areas that still require the service and no one seems to care. Anyone with good response from Hughenet ?

Anyone from a part of CT that is still w\o some form of hi speed service ?

 

[MossRoad]

I have two friends that have it/had it and neither would recommend it. One got rid of it as soon as wireless was available in her area. The other still has it but complains about it often.

 

[TripleR]

We have had Huges.net for years and converted to Gen4 a few months ago and ours works fine. Naturally I would prefer DSL, but where e live it is either Hughes or Excede. Charter dropped us years ago.

 

[ArmyPair2]

We have Gen 4 for about 1 year and been a hughesnet customer for 4 years. We cant wait to get cable in our area and get rid of it but that will take about 10 years living out in the sticks. The main reason we don't care for it is when it rains we lose the net or the price they want for their plans.

 

[deerseeker001]

We have hughesnet and have for years but upgraded to Gen4 in Jan and we love it.

 

[Stuka]

What kind of bandwidth limits do you have with Hughesnet?

 

[motownbrowne]

I looked at Hughesnet when I needed internet last year. I ended up going with a verizon 4g lte droid phone. I can "tether" my computer to it when I want to use the big screen, but actually just use the phone primarily for browsing. I found the price to be similar to hughesnet, but I can take it anywhere, and since I needed a phone and internet it made sense to have one service instead of two. I think they charge about $10/gigabyte, which is highway robbery, but what can you do with the end of the DSL line about a mile away. of course this would only work where you have 4g service, but I find it to be very fast.

 

[grainger12002]

I have poor cell service at home, trouble w charter is rthey built out both ends of the road and just left the middle,less than a half mile strip,near two major hiways,they should be obligated to finish it but......no cell,no decent land line,so hughes net is all we have ,It will do 5-10 meg down and 1-2 meg up, but really unreliable,getting a new modem,hopefully that will help,very hard to undersatnd how in 2013 we dont have decent reliable hi speed internnet-any suggestions on working w charter would be great

 

[rtimgray]

We've had hughesnet for about 3 1/2 years and I'm pretty happy. We got in on it when there was no equipment to buy/lease, no install cost, and no contract. Prior to that, we had dial-up and we had tried an AT&T wireless card, but reception was very poor at our house.

We have the cheapest plan, and by the time you add the cost of the plan, taxes/surcharges, and a $5 "service plan", we're paying about $47-$48 per month. In recent times, they have changed how they alot your download allowance, so I think it is now calculated on a rolling 48 hour average instead of 24 hours, so that helps if you don't use it much one day but do the next. We lose ours whenever we lose TV (Dish), but that's just part of it. Right now, I don't think there is a better option in our area.

Cons are that, in our plan, there is not enough usage allowable to stream movies or TV shows, unless you do it between midnight and 6AM (or maybe 7AM, I'm not sure) when usage is unlimited. I have a tool on our desktop tray that looks like a fuel gauge and shows how much usage you have remaining for the day, and they also "give" you a refresh token each month that you can use if you use up all our allotted internet usage.

My mom has unlimited data DSL - there's no comparison. I would jump to DSL or cable in a heartbeat, but it's just not offered in our area. I doubt we will ever get either, I'm just hoping sooner or later somebody will offer an effective wireless system.

Good luck and take care.

 

[peterc38]

Had Hughesnet, despised it. Got rid of it as soon as I could.