[Hidden-tech] HughesNet reviews

[Hal Rosenthal]

Greetings all,

We recently tried HughesNet as the wireless service, which is the only
other option where we live — Silver City, NM; formerly of Hadley. In
pre-sales discussions, I asked questions about reliability and service as
my wife works at home full time and I am mostly retired doing a very little
bit of consulting work. They assured me they had us covered. Well, in less
than six weeks of service, the wireless connection was unavailable 8+
times, which I have documented. I have had a couple of calls with their
tech support and the best they could do/offer was to reset the router. I
was clearly underwhelmed. Thankfully, we didn't cancel our other service so
my wife's worktime has hardly been interrupted. Additionally, in spite of
speed test results of faster download times, I don't see a noticeable
change in browsing around.

I am in the process of canceling service and fully expecting a
confrontation when it comes to the early cancellation fee.

Regards,
Hal

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Greg Caulton <greg at gregcaulton.com> wrote:

> G’day y’all :-)
>
> Does anyone have *anything* positive to say about HughesNet satellite
> internet?
>
> Online reviews are almost universally terrible and you get the impression
> that they’d be worse if users could give it less than 1 star!
>
> BUT, we need faster access than Verizon DSL (to which I can’t give much
> more than 1 star) and Shutesbury won’t have fibre for another 18 months or
> so.
>
> So has anyone had a good experience with HughesNet?
>
> Greg
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>
>
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2017, at 2:01 PM, Town Websites <townwebsites at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I’m giving up on Adobe CS4 on my new travel development tablet , not
> wanting to pay $600 annually for Adobe subscription to get it on the new
> box.
>
> What IDE is best for PHP, similar to Dreamweaver, and has a good server
> sync capability?
>
> I’ve used Netbeans and liked its PHP debugging capabilities and considered
> if overall ‘pretty good’, but don’t really want to install Java on my
> Windows 10, unless it’s to get the best IDE.  I have not tried PHPStorm.
> I’ve struggled through a few projects where I had to use Eclipse, and don’t
> want to do that again.
>
> I’ll do most real development with dual monitors, but need to do some
> travel updates on the tablet.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Charlie
>
>
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