Thanks for all the comments from everybody.
GabeU. I sort of found that out, by experience, but not by being forwarnded.
lacy19. My problems may not be as bad as yours because I'm not trying to use as many things as you are but I am getting the same sort of them, from the sound of things.
wbriscoejil: Glad I don't have to write that one again! Your comments are scary! But, then I was under the impression I was dealing with a reputable company when I set this up through Direct TV. I didn't expect any hidden surprises.
Mike Wald: Time outs may not be the right word for what I am getting but everything seems to be working with a lot of hesitations and spurts and I have had my television tell me that my connection was not fast enough to download a movie. But what yo have said sort of makes sense to me even though I'm not real good with the language that goes along with this stuff.
Liz, Official Rep: I saved you for last because you seem to be Official and I need official help. What I mean when I said, " sneak this in on me" is that I was never told anything other than someone was coming to hook up my Hughes Net dish up and then was notified that he would be a couple days late because he was waiting on parts. I was also told that my first year monthly payments would be $50.00 the first year and $60.00 the second year. The price was given to me by the Direct TV person that set all of this up. I assume it was someone from Hughes net that told be about the delay. Then the fella came and installed the dish and did the set up and left and I signed a piece of paper for him to the effect that he installed it and that was about it. other than what I mentioned above. When I talked to a hughes net rep on the phone to ask why thins weren't working and told her that I was being told my connection was too slow, she said I could up grade to the next speed and maybe that would help and that it would cost me ten more dollars and I told her to go for it. She did and I tried it and it didn't seem to help a whole lot, but it did a little. I did get to load some movies. But things seem to still be pretty slow to me. Then I found out yesterday that I have used up all my regular daylight time (whatever you call it) and that I'm now working on some sort of bonus time and that my speed has been cut way back again..
What was snuck in on me was that i never heard of the different times Or the limits I had on data or anything from Hughes net. It was put up and I was turned loose to use it and find out everything else by myself. No book no nothing. I spent a few days just finding out how to get into this sight and this community forum. I found a phone number some where in here yesterday to call. I've been reading this stuff and trying gout different things on my own for those days . Of which one is that speed test you mentioned . I was told in the process that I had to load a new version of Java Which I did about a dozen or more times following the directions. I finally got to run the speed tests which didn't mean too much to me at first until I found out what speed I was supposed to be running at. That took me a few hours to find out. Except I'm not for sure what plan I am under Since the one that they tell me today when I found it says it is costing me $79.00, I think, Instead of $60.00 which was the second on there that I thought I had up graded too, I'm not sure encase I was originally quoted $50.00 the first year and I up grade one step that says I should be paying 69 and when I looked at what they say I have it is 79 That is a big part of the confusion part, besides all the rest.
AS fares the speed test you would like me to run and give you all those results. I can't run it because I'm told I don't have the Java update again. I have no idea where that keeps going! I've loaded it a bunch of times and only got to use it once to run speed tests and got different results overtime that one time I could run them.
Now, I appreciate you trying to help me here, but I type pretty slow , This has taken me about two hours to write so far toady. To do it this way and figure out all the things I need to know would take me a month and I just don't have the time for that. I don't speak IT and it seems everybody assumes that since I try to use a computer I should, but I only want to use one, not fix it, so I never learned. For the last 70 years I have had way too many jobs and do not wish to start to learn a new one all over again, let alone the language that goes with it.
So, to save you and me a lot of aggravation, I'm going to start out by calling this number I finally found and see if I can find somebody I can talk to to straighten me out. Hope fully they can do that before I tear this whole mess out of here and get something I can use to do what I need to. In which they can have it all back when they come to get their money.