Thanks Mordacious. I think I very well might do that.
I do want to say, (for anyone else reading this thread), that despite the frustration evidenced in my original post, that I've been with HughesNet for about 10 years now and overall, I've had very little trouble. Didn't mean to give the wrong impression. Yes, sometimes stuff doesn't work perfectly, but what in life (or on the internet) does?
So, mostly as a counter point to some of the negativity I'm reading on this forum (not discounting your personal experiences, so please folks, don't jump all over me) I want to shout out to the techs, support people, and developers at Hughes - I'm very sure managing a system with this amount of complexity can't be easy at times and I appreciate your hard work. Best to you. Keep it up.