HuggiesUNSUB
@direcpc.com
| HughesNet = LIARS
Hello potential HughesNet Customers
HughsNet = LIARS
a) DNS fails at least 20 hours per week (cannot use Internet without it)
b) You are limited to 150 MB download per day. If you exceed that your connection with be throttled to 1.8 - 2.8 KB per second until 24 hours have elapsed after exceeding the previous day's threshold.
i) This means you MUST turn off any auto-updates for software (Windows Update, Apple Update, Java Update, & on & on)
ii) This means don't don't exchange or post personal pictures with family, friends or post to Flickr or similar services
iii) This means forget watching YouTube or any other videos.
iv) This means forget iTunes or iPodcasts or MP3
v) This means except for reading webpages Hughesnet is useless. Even only reading news pages it often fails:
1) DNS fails: therefore your computer cannot find site
2) If you go to a page that has video embedded (advertising stuff for example) since these ads take alot of bandwidth sometimes you use the 150 MB limit just reading news pages!
3) Latency: loooong and often pages must be reloaded because the latency is too long.
c) Service is not 'spotty' during rain: it flat out FAILS during any rain other than a light shower.
d) EXPENSIVE: you MUST sign up for at least 15 months at at least 60 dollars per month PLUS pay for EXPENSIVE equipment ($600 total) that can never be used again once you cancel HughesNet (and you will ASAP).
e) Satellite Dish is HUGE. No joke, I didn't realize satellite dishes were made so big.
f) The MAXIMUM speed sustained by my connection with HughesNet = 100KB (actually 94.5KB/sec) per second * 15 minutes = 150 MB after 150 download is reached: 1.8KB - 2.8 KB per second (& often slower or 0KB/sec) for the next 24 hours). You do realize 100KB is only twice as fast as a dial-up connection and then for only 15 minutes. After that 15 minutes is used then for the rest of the day the dial-up connection is 25 times to 50 times faster that HughesNet. Therefore DIAL-UP is on AVERAGE 25x FASTER than
HughesNet. Just make sure to schedule software auto updates for the midnight hours. Same thing goes for YouTube videos, posting pictures, and the like. Learn about the tools to schedule these things. And the next morning your Dial-up won't be throttled to 1KB per second.
SOLUTION: buy a second dedicated phone-line for dial-up and forget HughesNet. You can even buy 2 more dedicated phone-lines, combine their connection and it will be fast as HughesNet at HughesNet PEAK AVERAGE of 100KB/second over 15 minutes but it will at HughesNet PEAK AVERAGE of 100KB/second for 24/7/365 for about the same price as HughesNet's cheapest package. It will be cheaper and faster and easier to cancel.
So it should be clear to you I have been a HughesNet customer and that I know what I am talking about. AVOID HUGHESNET like the PLAGUE! |
