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There was some major under the hood changes (if you exclude Win2K) in the jump from Win98/ME to XP such as moving from FAT32 to NTFS just to name one. ... View more

To me, Win7 is what Vista should have been and most likely would have been if not for "marketing pressures". Having said that, I too was "reluctant" to give up my WinXP, in fact I still run it on a couple of hard drives. I do have a retail copy of Vista Ultimate (as well as Win7 Ultimate) and it (Vista) does take a bit more horsepower to run but there is a big difference between a OEM preinstalled Windows vs a "retail" installation. Wifes Toshiba laptop however runs great on Vista. I have bought the retail versions of Windows since Day One (even ME) but I drew the line at Win8/8.1, I refuse to pay big money for an OS that at its heart is a "mobile OS" (yes I know about classic shell) when my main requirements are for a desktop application. As far as Networking ? Win7 is a breeze. ... View more

Just to be clear on "end of Win7 support" ...... Security updates and patches for Win7 will continue into 2020. ... View more

For those that don't know where to find their ESN: Open a browser, enter 192.168.0.1  into the address bar: If ever you have to post a screen shot of something that has your SAN (DSSxxxxxx) in it open the screenshot in an editing program like Microsoft Paint and user the "eraser" or erase your SAN. ... View more

Hi Charles, Like Gary, I am just to far back in the woods, also using wireless encryption. In my case it is best described as "unauthorized use by an authorized  device" You simply can't trust those tablets, phablets & e-readers to stay within the "rules". That sneaky Nook HD+ of mine once woke up from a "slumber" and downloaded a completely new OS in the middle of the night. It has to be hard off or airplane mode. . ... View more

Gary, Just to show how "slippery" things can be I have noticed in the last two evenings that my ratio of upload to download is out of wack. Now it just HAS to be an "authorized" device accessing my wireless network. It can only be one of two possible devices, an HP wireless printer that is set not to access the web or my Nook HD+ that, as much as is possible with those types of devices is set not to "auto-date" or "sync". Yet something on my network uploaded 2.2MB between midnight and 1am eastern. All other devices were "hard off". I know that is a far cry from 2.5GB, but the principal is the same ... unidentified and unexpected network activity. ... View more

Gary, " I really need to see the minute-by-minute usage records to be able to rule that out.": There is no minute by minute but there is the traditional Hourly History Report. Go here, select your modem type, enter your SAN .. remember to capitalize the letters DSS, and select a date: http://customercare.myhughesnet.com/select_modem.html The only issues with this display are : It is written from the perspective of Eastern Time Zone so if you are in another corrections must be made. It is a HISTORY REPORT  and as such is not "real time" but has a usual 1 to 3 hour delay. These are "gross" usage numbers and not all indicated usage is actually charged against your allowance. That report looks like this: Additionally, others have suggested seeing the Download Status Meter utility not showing usage drain .. and then suddenly "catch up" with a big drop all at once. Of the three methods to track you usage (SCC, Download Status Meter, "At A Glance" Meter), the At A Glance Meter is the most accurate and dependable. It can be found here, after logging in: http://my.hughesnet.com/ Usage can be tracked at the MB level: ... View more

The "one size fits all" Hughes supplied approch to networking may very well simplify support issues for a large percentage of novice users but Hughes is nearly famous for having no "adjustability" to its modems. That would surely cause some major issues for many others. ... View more

And there it is ! There is just a "conflict of interest" with an ISP providing anything more than connection services. Before you could drive a car, you had to take drivers training so you at least understood something of the subject. Computers ... it used to be that home users only had a single machine and in many cases there was no software firewall built in, no anti virus, no anti malware. Hacks and infections were all over. The landscape has changed but user knowledge has not kept pace. The router is very much missunderstood but is a critical part of everyones network. Look at the large numbers of complaints here on the forum dealing with data loss. Look how difficult it is to get a novice subscriber to bypass the router even for a few hours for testing and diagnosis. Look at the number of times we have seen that the data loss was due to a unsecured wireless network. ... View more

That makes this a timely topic: The Internet Of Things http://www.trendmicro.com/us/marketing/newsletter/flod/20150131/security-for-home-users.html As more and more of this stuff sneaks into our homes we become more dependent upon securing our networks. ... View more

As far as Hughes building in a wireless capability, thanks but no thanks .... the "integrity" of my routers hardware firewall is very important to me and the 1st level of my network security, ... View more

Alan, Funny you should mention the Netgear WNR2000. That is what I have been using for several years. It has always been rock solid except for some wireless interference issues from my cordless phone until lately. It now requires a power off reset about twice per week. My next one will be a Asus. The ability to track usage by device will be a real plus. ... View more

Jonathan, Speaking as an 11 year Hughes subscriber, the systems usually run pretty good ... usually. When they don't, the first place to look is inside the modem itself ... the SCC (System Control Center) found by entering 192.168.0.1 in your browsers address bar. That will bring up the "main page" of the system. Mine (Gen4 HT1100) looks like this: That page gives me a quick "snapshot" as to some key parameters: Are both the icons marked as #'s 1&2 both green ? Am I in FAP ? That is the place to begin. Remember, if you post a screenshot here on the Community, be sure to edit out your SAN (starts with DSSxxxxxxx) ... View more

Hopefully she didn't get caught up in this little "thing". It sure would be nice to see Hughes change this to a "opt in" rather than the deceptive "gotcha" on the weekly "Billing System Updates". This tactic is unsavory at best. ... View more

I have Thunderbird set for POP3 for 1 Outlook.com & 3 Hughesnet accounts while accessesing a Gmail account as IMAP. The settings on how to access an acount lay within the email client program you use. ... View more

Hi Holly, Assuming, as you stated, you are not in FAP, and also assuming that you don't have any "conditions" affecting your connection: (are icons #1 & #2 both green) (click on picture of larger image): Then you may wish to try the following: 1st: It may be that you are trying to stream in "HD" and the system just can't keep up. Try turning the resolution down to something less. Streaming in HD takes an extreme amount of data to support. 2nd: In some cases turning off Web Acceleration for the duration of the operation may help. On a Gen4 system system this is dome by clicking on the #3 icon in the picture above, that leads to the modems "advanced pages" and the select from the "menu" tree on the left as shown here: and placing a checkmark in the box next to "disable Web Acceleration" the clicking the SUBMIT button. Re-enable when you are done. There are some people the claim their systems perform better disabled, however, I suggest you look at it not as an either/or condition but as a "switch" to be "toggled" to one setting or the other as conditions demand. ... View more

Daniel, Try to keep in mind that "residential servce" is a very very very small part of Hughes Network Systems yet requires a vast amount of "support". They really are plaqued with the "where is the any key to continue" syndrome in many cases. Speaking as an 11 year Hughes customer, I'm not sure Hughes understands non Enterprise support. They are getting better I think ... one way to help is to visit this community forum and help out our less knowledgeble fellow users by offering your own expertise. ... View more

Cara, Due to past billing issues I always make manual, early one time only payments. It does require than you be very careful when doing so. Here is the process. Click on the pictures for larger images. First go here: http://my.hughesnet.com/ That gives this: Click the yellow highlighted area: Here you have to enter your SAN remember to capitalize the letters DSSxxxxxx when doing so If you do not know your SAN you can find it near the top center of the modems SCC main page found by entering 192.168.0.1 in your browsers address bar: Entering your SAN, ZIP and captcha info you get this: You then are asked to select a question. I get an error if I select and answer anything other than the phone number associated with my account:   Select the "Advance Payment" option the "apply to" can be left blank Enter the amount you intend to pay I pay by eCheck: NOW HERE IS WHERE IT GETS STICKY AND I THINK DECEPTIVE: BY DEFAULT HUGHES CHECKS THE BOX NEAR THE END OF THE PAGE. THAT BOX, IF "CHECKED" AUTHORIZES HUGHES TO "AUTO PAY" FROM THAT ACCOUNT FROM THEN ON .......... MAKE SURE YOU UNCHECK THAT BOX BEFORE PROCEDING WITH THE PAYMENT PROCESS. The remainder is rather straight forward. The amount you specified is deducted from your account immediately. I always take a "copy/paste" of the "successful payment and paste it to a notepad "receipt". In a moment or two, you can verify that the payment "took" by going here: http://my.hughesnet.com/ Logging in and finding your payment listed as a "credit" like mine is here: I have been using this method for over 10 yrs to pay my bill electronically, early but at my convenience. You just have to be very careful to insure that you indeed did remove the "checkmark". .  ... View more

Anonymous, I really hope that when the Mods read your last series of posts that they ban you from the community. Your posts have become riddled with profanity. They contain no information useful to the OP. Considering that you are not the account holder you really have no standing as a Hughes subscriber. It is one thing to post of having a negative experience with your service and sharing that experience in a related topic, it is quite another to have to read your profanity. ... View more

Charles, The new Download Status Meter has a different "view" when accessing Tokens than in past versions. In the past you had a view like this: In it you could see the number of remaining Tokens, you could see that number drop as transactions were performed. The new meter just shows the "category", the little "notifier" flashes very quickly on the screen then is gone. That is why I prefer using the "at a glance" meter that still shows the change in numbers and the "transaction notifier" persists until clicked on (as of this past month) ... View more

Sally, there is a "trick" however on the "free" tokens. When a Token is "issued" it is deposited here: The "trick" is, as I recall, you can only allow 6 Free tokens to build up here. If allowed, the 7th and more will just spill over and be lost. A Max of six can reside in the original deposit location. Therefor they need to be "used", in this sense, it is really a "move". When a Token is "used" it is "moved" or added if your prefer, to your "Token Bytes Available" data bucket. You have three sources of data: #1: Anytime Bytes (8am to 2am) #2: Bonus Bytes (2am to 8am) #3: Token Bytes Available (used when Anytime Bytes are depleted) You can see this in the "At A Glance" Meter:  It can be found in the Download Status Meter: It can be found in the SCC: The only way to lose "Token Data" after it has be "used" (read moved) is to use it to automatically avoid FAP.   ... View more

Charles, If you want to see a mess, My "main desktop computer" has 10 internal hard drives. Five of them have different operating systems on them, each of the OS drives has a "backup drive" assigned to it because the OS drives are so radically different ranging from Windows 98SE thru Win7 Ultimate with an occasional Linux Distro inserted into a trayless SATA drawer slot just for variety. 🙂    ... View more

I agree that a sound backup strategy is essential. The problem with using an external hard drive however is the user has to remember to hook up the drive at some kind of interval ... something easily put off. All desktop computers and many laptops have room for a second internal hard drive. Having the drive always connected allows the backup process to be automated, Example: My Win7 Toshiba laptop has two internal drives, the main "C" drive with the operating system and installed programs and a second "D: drive. Windows is set to do "incremental" file backups every 4 hours and to make a "system image" once per month. The currant image and one month back are retained so as to never overwrite a "problem" image. If needed a complete up to the moment system image is the sum of the last system image + the current "incremental files". Once set up, it requires no attention or intervention by the user. If  problem occurs the Windows backup function alerts the user. (and I do keep backups-to-the-backups on external hard drives) ... View more

I also think she may be referring to the Pre-Token Bucket era. Just look at the confusion over having three data sources ... View more

For some reason only a small portion of my reply posted. However, I think the point has become rather moot. ... View more

Sally, I know we have spoke of this before but, there is more than one way to access Tokens. It seems the method through the Download Status Meter just doesn't give you the info you need. Instead I suggest you use this alternate method: Go here:http://my.hughesnet.com/ From this meter note the amount of data in your "Token Bucket": ... View more

Have you tried going into the modems SCC advanced pages and do an MBX Reset ? ... View more

My bad: There is a Windows version and another for OS X As to salesmen ... they haven't a clue. There are many Hughes system platforms and plan variations in use. In some of the legacy plans with daily allowance refills, there was a "rollover" for up to two days worth of data but that never has been a part of any Gen4 plan. If salesmen have a function beyond taking up space, I'm baffled as to what it is. If you are searching for when a past loss occurred you seem to be left with this: https://community.myhughesnet.com/hughesnet/topics/hughes-gen4-needs-a-daily-by-month-use-graph Select your Modem type Enter your SAN (remember to capitalize the letters DSSxxxxxx) Select a date. That will provide hourly usage details for a given 24hr period. You could then take screenshots and assemble them into some kind of timeline. I seem to recall you being located in the pacific time zone, so as noted in a previous post the hourly details posted above are listed in eastern so a "correction" needs to be applied. ... View more

Ecoalex, why are you so reluctant to run the linux version of the Download Status Meter ? The latest version seems much more stable than previous releases, the Windows version at least. ... View more

ecoalex, It is a bit of a "two-stepper" but a 30 day graph is available from withing the Download Status Meter: Hovering your mouse will give a "daily detail". If something on a given day perked your interest then the detail of that day can be found by calling up the traditional Hourly History Report: Hourly values are listed in Eastern Time Zone but here is a template I "anointed" to illustrate corrections for other time zones..   ... View more