this was not a hughesnet problem. I did an upgrade on another program yesterday which 3 weeks ago was working fine. SO thinking of my problem with hughnet and the other program not working I went to DISK CLEANUP that found 28 mg of useless files to clean out of my pc . all of 5 minutes to do this and hughsnet speed not as fast as broadband but the speed is about 80 percent of broadband plus the other program with the upgrade worls fine