Forum Discussion
Where are the Champions?
Liz wrote:Hi maratsade!
We're still here monitoring the boards, but we're taking a more hands off approach with this community since we want the customers to help each other out. We will hop in if we come across a situation where we're absolutely needed,
This is in a number of ways very sad news.
The Hughes Community forum was always the Hidden Jewel of the Hughes support system. I fear that this new direction will take some of the luster from that jewel.
A Hughes subscriber will have their issues rooted in three different ways
>Those that are Hughes related<
>Those that are related to something on the users end<
>Those on the users end that are percieved by the subscriber to be Hughes related<
Not all, but many subscribers are not well versed in all aspects of their computers, operating systems, installed software and of course .. Networking.
All of this is going to lead to major frustration on the part of the subscriber which leads to them reaching out for support.
That support is available in several forms.
>Phone<
We have seen countless posts related to frustration with Phone Support be it language issues, long wait times, dropped calls and non-returned calls and the Big One ... non-working PIN numbers if a customer is able to have their issue bumped up the tier ladder. Another common complaint is that every call seems to start from square one.
>Chat<
I never could get Chat to work reliably and many others have reported trouble getting it to work or the Chat session being dropped.
>Email<
I never tried it but many reports of email support requests never being responded to have been posted.
>Hughes Community<
The Hughes Community in my opinion really worked. It is staffed by corporate level employees that are truly dedicated to customer service, understand all aspects of computers and networking and are able to cut all the red-tape and get right to the heart of the subscribers issue.
We Community Regulars would respond to post during weekends and off hours. We would ask questions that if the user followed up on would provide the data that the Mods needed to make a quick reply or to escalate an issue to the proper department and then provide feed-back on the issue status.
The Community Regulars would also pick up on issues the were affecting the customers user experience but after troubleshooting it was determined that the root cause was not directly Hughes related. The Regulars having more time to work one on one in areas like Operating Systems or Router setup among other things.
At times a subscriber would have some doubt as to our purpose or identity and the involvement by one of the Mods would in many cases clear up that doubt.
The lack of future involvement on the part of the Mods in all but the most severe of cases puts the effectiveness of the Community at risk.
Just my opinion.
Hi Liz;
I wondered what had happened. This is certainly not the place it used to be. When you helped me two years ago with (to me) a major problem and even last year with a smaller problem - I became a Hughes "Booster". This year has been different. I have felt ignored.
A major change in Hughes -- and I really didn't know why - NOW I do!
It is sad to see Hughes go (as so many big companies are) down the road of impersonality.
I will still be posting occasionally - and trying to stay positive. Thanks for your help in the past.
Have a good life!
Bkeeper
Cliff
Hi Cliff,
It's been a time of a lot of transitions over here, both in the community and with the arrival of Gen 5. We're trying to move as many people off EchoStar 17 to the new satellite to improve service for all. Until then, there's not much more our network engineers can do, they have already performed capacity expansions on multiple beams for those on Gen 4.
Eventually things will settle down and the kinks will be worked out. There's still a lot of work needed behind the scenes just for the community, plus we're also working on other projects to better serve HughesNet subscribers. We trust the long time posters and experts here to educate the community, and hope that newcomers will gain that trust as well. I have hope and confidence, and we'll help them as best we can. :cathappy:
