Absolutely Useless.
I have had HughesNet for close to a year now, and have been disappointed with it from day one. I just work so dang much that I haven't had the time to do this until now. Simply put, it just doesn't d...
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I haven't been to the community for a long time and decided to check it out. I ran into this post and it got me thinking now that we've been with Hughesnet for a couple of years.
We live in rural Georgia. We had ATT&T dsl, but on a good day it was 760kbs. They finally di.scontinued our dsl service because we were actually too far from the slick. We went to the Verizon program where they used a cantenna on your house and you connected to a microwave tower. It was buggy. Left with no other choice we decided to try satellite internet, although we were aware of the limitations. Reviews led us to choose Hughesnet over Excede.
From a service standpoint, we've been very happy. We rarely have technical outages. Bad storms interrupt service, but it is just the nature of the beast. We bought the 50 gig package and it has been a good fit. We also got VOIP and it works OK, though latency takes a little getting used to.
We made the decision to go with satellite service after thoroughly understanding the limitations. We modify our usage accordingly. The system is good enough for her to use Web-X to teach her online courses. I sometimes watch YouTube videos, but we get other content through Dish and Netflix disks. Yes, I'd love to have gig connectivity, but I wouldn't trade it for the gorgeous home sitting on 13 acres that we have. I'm happy with the service we get from Hughesnet.
