[Hidden-tech] HughesNet reviews

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:38:24 -0400 Greg Caulton <greg at gregcaulton.com> wrote:

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> G'day y'all :-)
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> Does anyone have anything positive to say about HughesNet satellite internet?
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> So has anyone had a good experience with HughesNet?

I don't have HughesNet (Satellite Internet is not an option where I live), but
a thread like this has gone though the local Wendell Townsfolk list. HughesNet
is better than dialup and not really much better than Verizon DSL and
(obviously) worse than Cable Internet. I suspect that most of the "bad"
reviews are from ex DSL and Cable users (why someone would toss cable in favor
of HughesNet is beyond me, except the Cable companies have rotten customer
service, as does Verizon DSL, probably because as "monopolies" they have to
reason to have good customer service -- HughesNet customer service is not 
necessarily any better).

Satellite Internet has two main drawbacks:

1) Latency (due to the high geosyncronious orbit).  This makes Satellite 
Internet problematical for video conferencing and VPN use.

2) Weather can cause signal problems.  A dish full of snow becomes 
non-functional (until scooped out). :-)

Also: if there is a hill/mountain or a forest (or both) blocking your 
southwestern horizon, you might be out of luck.

Bad as Verizon DSL is, it *might* be better than Satellite Internet. *Wendell*
has no DSL option, so the choices in Wendell are Wild Blue or HughesNet,
unless you live within 1/2 mile of the center (and use the fixed wireless) or
can get a cell signal and use a MiFi (Celluar HotSpot). Of if nothing else
works, dialup. Yes, really there are people *still* on dialup and *I* am one
of the nobodies that is still using dialup. "Nobody still uses dialup."

Oh, Satellite Internet also has a data cap.  Hit your monthly or daily limit 
and you are dead in the water.  This can be avoided if you only do downloads 
at like 2am.



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