@hollidayjr
I can tell you that I've had plenty of problems with updates from Microsoft while on the HT1100 with Gen4. I have suspicions as to the reasons, but there was no way to alleviate the problems at the time. What I did find, though, was that the updates tended to work better when I tried doing them at least a few days after the initial release, and late at night, when the fewest number of people were on-line.
Why the problem only seemed to be with Microsoft, again, is only speculation, but I think it's possible that it has to do with their servers being both sensitive to latency and sensitive to a congested signal. When it would work after a few days and late at night, there were less people trying to download the updates from their servers and the signal from Hughesnet was less congested due to less people being on-line at that time.
The problem only seemed to hit some people, but not most. I, unfortunately, was one of them.
I wish I had a better solution for you. Perhaps someone might have something else to try.
One thing you could try, if you have not already and if it applies to you, is to try downloading them while directly connected to the modem if you are presently trying to do it wirelessly. It didn't make any difference for me, but it might for you.
Ah, one other thing. You could try turning off web acceleration and seeing if that makes any difference. I can't remember exactly how to do so in the HT1100, but I think you go to the System Control Center, click on the little i on the upper right, and the web acceleration adjustment is on the left in the options. Something like that.
