Comments on: Satellite Internet: Week 2

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:47:37 +0000

I feel your pain, really. I am so, so glad I have left sattelite behind – I can’t quite imagine how I did it.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:39:09 +0000

I have had DSL and Cable internet for years… and now am moving to a house 2 miles out of town, where I apparently won’t be able to get either. Being essentially a computer nerd at heart, it seems uncivilized to think that vast swaths of people are actually living in this way… being a displaced renter due to someone else’s sudden foreclosure, I have little choice in where I’m going – but the thought of having somebody metering my internet makes me feel just shy of suicidal. Perhaps it would be understandable if this were 1998, but approachning the second decade of the 21st century?! $#!@.

By: Karla

Karla — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:36:25 +0000

We have hughes. It is terrible, being our only choice…better than ‘pretending’ to read emails…lol. My oldest daughter is also attending college and highschool at the same time. Talk about difficult. We pay $80 a month and can only d/l 425mb. This system is ridiculous. I ask them when the 24 hr. time is reset for my 425mb d/l’s. I get no answer…basically run around in a circle. I also found out that the fap open window time period is COMPLETELY different for central time. I found that out by violating it. Crazy me just adjusted the est. time for central, that is not the way hughes figured it up. I got the downLoad Manager, I am barely able to download small files each night. That added to the poor day time surfing and the unspecified rules that I am not told until I break a rule, I have had enough of Hughes.

By: Bounty-Orions

Bounty-Orions — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:36:20 +0000

I researched both wild blue and hughes net and the blue seemed the way to go since there wasn’t any other option except really slow dial-up (18-22K) and only because the phone lines out here haven’t been upgraded since they were installed back in the late 40’s i think. Local Telephone company is Verizon and I try to call them once a month or so to get updates on if they will be installing FiOS in my area. I am within range of a wireless internet service but the tower is 250 feet above my house ( im in a valley basically) so the signal goes right above me. SIGHS!!! I hate having to pay so much for my connection and then they tell me im downloading too much and they have slowed my access speed but do they reduce my bill for the reduced speed? NO!! I was wondering what if satellite TV providers did that to their customers, counted the data transmitted and then shut em off or only showed em commercials until their bandwidth rolled over. I dont think they would have very many customers AND i would drop wild blue in a heart beat if I had something better to connect to, usually cheaper too.

By: Satellite Junky

Satellite Junky — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:15:49 +0000

I have HughesNet and I think it is ok..It has gotten much cheaper with the rebates..

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:24:11 +0000

I almost sold my newly purchased home becouse I couldn’t find a highspeed provider – I was lucky enough to get wildblue and I worry about the FAP as I am a heavy internet users and do software beta testing. So far so good – sorry to hear about your internet ulcer! Look into EVDO soon over cell phone plans.

By: Dustin J. Mitchell

Dustin J. Mitchell — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:39:16 +0000

I love the line “I will try my best to forward this concern to the concerned.” It sounds like they have a staff of professional fretters. “Oh my, that’s just awful! Next!”

What a weird policy, too. Geez.

By: Michelle Murrain

Michelle Murrain — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:53:08 +0000

Wild Blue wasn’t doing any installs at all in our area, so I didn’t have a choice.

By: abenamer

abenamer — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:47:58 +0000

Have you tried WildBlue? We dropped HughesNet as a provider. I’ve never seen that FAP enforced…