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I rather not touch my NightHawks, besides I am running PFSense for my main router 🙂 ... View more

Yes, sadly Netgear is getting rid of the "Repeater" like function in the routers they sell, since it's hurting sells of actual network repeaters.  So it's just one way to make sure you buy what they want you to buy.  Used to be on older Netgear routers, you could go into them, tell them to work as an AP, then set them up just like a Repeater and have only power going to them.  Now you have to have a physical cable going to their newest routers in AP mode, no repeat functions at all, even on NightHawks. ... View more

Can be done with Netgear as well, just put them all into AP, and assign them all with the same SSID, some of them have better options where you can tell each one if there is a master unit, then additional units and so on. ... View more

Amanda, my Wifi network covers about the same area as OP's using multiple access points, no speed issues at all.  Kinda like being in the garden with a good strong wifi signal. ... View more

You can connect their WAN ports all to a single switch, and put them into AP mode, then hook that switch to the LAN of a 5th router, set them all to the same SSID. But wireless routers don't help cell phone reception...  Just helps with wireless internet coverage... ... View more

AT&T... my only words about them are, "Thanks for screwing us over."  Bellsouth ran new lines down my road for DSL service, had almost everything completed, then AT&T bought them the week that the DSL was to go active.  AT&T never activated the lines, and have let them sit and rot to the point that phone lines here just don't work anymore. ... View more

The HT1100 has a 1000/100/10Mbps port, 1Gbit NIC's are cheap enough today and sometimes cheaper than 10/100 ports that most everyone is throwing in a 1Gbit NIC now. Just food for thought though, enthusiast consumer grade motherboards on the top end are starting to come with 10Gbit NIC's, but these are boards that cost $500 to $700, as much as a typical consumer PC. ... View more

Technically the "Router" portion is gateway side with the HT1000/1100 units, since the modem just sends all data to a single point, as well as gets DNS and DHCP information from that same point...  In a way it's nothing more than a repeater.  However the old HN9000, that was a basic router. ... View more

You can do it that way, but the wireless access point will use one of the five available addresses, which means you can only have upto 4 more devices on the network. ... View more

The problem only exists because they constantly change the IP, I see no purpose in them changing the IP between re-associations, it's a private address space as is... ... View more

Charles, as is I can monitor everything I want, from what websites each device visits, to time of day for each site and each byte transfered over my network.  The issue for me comes into play when the modem it self allows wireless access to it, thus bypassing my own LAN. http://i.gyazo.com/03cbba1c3bf0668cbd65d84c99d8815d.png I just have a SERIOUS issue with providers "providing" a router inside the modem, seen too many homes that had such things, and had serious issues with security. ... View more

True, but offering Wireless in the modem like I said earlier, should enable us the choice of disabling such functionality.  If it's enabled, what's to stop people from breaking into it?  I would never notice anyone on the modems Wireless because I have no way of monitoring such a thing, nor seeing how much data is used. ... View more

Yes, I am, but consider this... New homes are being built, our nations power grid is slowly being updated to a "Smart Grid" where every home has a smart meter.  Many local power companies are giving people network access to these meters.  With that, MANY of todays newer electronics from Water Heaters and Thermostats for the HVAC all the way to lighting in a home is networkable.  Imagine a home that has the following... Smart Electrical Meter (One IP) Smart Fridge (One IP) Smart Water Heater (One to two IP depending on home size) Smart HVAC system (One to FIVE IP depending on if you use floor heaters under ceramic tiles) Smart Lighting System (This is where you could end up with DOZENS of addresses) Smart Irrigation system (One IP) Entertainment systems (Overly complicated, can cause network size to explode) All these devices talk back and forth between one another, deciding whether they should be turned on or off, or the optimal temperture for that current time period.  Many new homes are being built around these systems, and many older homes are ever so slowly upgrading to these systems.  My home is one such home that is ever so slowly upgrading.  In the end this costs a fortune, but is well worth it in the long term.  The issue is, when your ISP has control of your router, what's keeping security risks at bay?  IPv6 addresses are routable, makes a smart home a VERY easy target for hackers.  Even BASIC IP Cameras have shown to be easily hacked.  So do I trust my ISP with my router if they can't handle keeping such intruders off the network to begin with?  NO.  Last thing I want is the kid down the street figuring out how to access my network from the WAN side and turning off my water heater half an hour before I go to shower. Also, many basic routers can't tolerate more than 10-20 devices at a time, they tend to choke up once all those devices start talking at one time. ... View more

I am against Hughes building in ANY wireless functionality UNLESS the customer gets complete control over it, such as, being able to disable it entirely.  I rather prefer having my own network equipment and then a basic modem from the ISP...  Letting the ISP handle my network addressing would cause me headaches, then again, I also have 30 or so devices total on my network. ... View more

One of the best tests to perform is the modems LAN Speed Test, this helps pinpoint if the issue is local (Modem, cables, router, computer NIC).  The HT1000 should almost always get between 20 and 35Mbps on such a test when going through a router, where as the HT1100 if the network is full Gigabit should get between 150Mbps and 210Mbps. The next issue is, a router is more than a divider, it has to handle all the connections.  Just because there is a single PC on that router, doesn't mean that there is a single connection.  If the router chokes up when there are 500 links being created and they all have some traffic, then speed/response issues WILL occur.  Just a tip, you might visit a website, but as many as 1000 different connections are being created or more, Skype alone, when it initially logs in attempts to connect to well over 300 different addresses for advertisements, updates, log-on authentication and more.  That's just skype, on one PC.  If the routers processor and RAM can't handle that much, then you will get slow speeds.  This is why it's important to have a proper router with plenty of internal RAM and processing capabilities. Tests I perform when it comes to slow speeds/responses. 1: Modems LAN Speed Test - Is it testing GOOD?  If so, go to next step. 2: WinMTR to www.google.com for 10 minutes.  This lets you see average latency as well as spikes at every single hop, it sends a continuous ping to each hop inspecting it.  Do all results fall under 1000MS for Jupiter platforms? If yes continue. 3: Load up testmy.net, test, do speeds fall between 50 and 90% of plan speeds? If yes, continue. 4: Loadup speedtest.net and test using various servers located NEAR the gateway (Alan, you should have an idea of figuring out where gateways are, like BIL is Billings Montana) 5: Test using P2P, as this mimics generating hundreds of connections, but also has a drawback, it consumes vast amounts of data.  Find a GOOD legal torrent that has hundreds, to thousands of seeds that will provide you 20Mbps or more at any time while on a cable connection.   When doing test #5, please note the modem may glitch and cause a short outage for the download, but it isn't very common.  If the speeds never reach 50% at a minimum for a sustained period of time, and the modem isn't tripping statecode checks, or the GUI for the modem hasn't become sluggish, it's ALMOST safe to assume it is the router having difficulties processing multiple connections. 6: So far everything looks good, next question is to see if the client is using a laptop, are they using the Wifi, or are they plugging in?  If they are plugging in, MAKE SURE they are NOT connected wirelessly at the same time, this can cause serious traffic confusion and collisions with the router.  If they are wireless only, pull out your smartphone, and load up an app which detects 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz wireless signals.  Some apps can pick up signals even if the SSID is hidden, but can't show the SSID, but lets you know the signal is there.  Check the channel that signal is on, and make sure it's not the same channels as the customs. 7:  Make a backup of the router configuration, then do a firmware recovery/reset, restoring the router back to defaults, then re-run setup just enough to get it back online and test, did things improve?  Find the differences between the two setups, and apply the differences one at a time. 8:  Does conditions improve if the router is reset?  If so, you may need a new router in the near future, as it's not killing states properly, or it's just worn out from use. ... View more

This is a company that is using customer money for research and development. They are charging us full price while they develop their product. Guess you didn't know every company uses customers money for research and development.  How do you think technology progresses? You have to be aware that they charge people to come out even if it is to check on the installation If you was an installer and had to drive two hours to a resident (note, installers are contractors, paid per visit, NOT by the hour, nor mile), would you take that trip and only make $65 while spending $40 in fuel?  This is why truck rolls are charged unless it happens to be an issue within the warranty period of the last visit.  Well I have read a lot about Howard Hughes he was not a man to do stuff half way. Every thing he did,  he did 1st class . I don't believe that Mr Hughes would be proud of this company using his name. Just my opinion.  Actually, M/A-Com Telecommunication was bought by Hughes Aircraft, which was owned by General Motors at the time, because Howard Hughes had died, then there was a sell off or two, a few new companies created, and so on.  In a way, it's just a company name that has been re-purposed over the decades, and is now owned by Echostar.  Much in the same way that Nintendo has changed over the last 100+ years.  Starts as one thing, and eventually evolves into something entirely different, yet keep the same name for simplicity sake. As for the class-action lawsuit, the lawyer will end up with 90% of the money, and each individual client (winnings are split, that $2.5 Million or what ever, well, imagine splitting that between millions of current and past customers) would get $10 to $20 tops if Hughes did lose, sadly Class Action suits do nothing more than pad lawyers pockets.  But I do wish you good luck.  Your best bet is electing proper senators, and push them to vote in the interest of people for once. ... View more

Edward, could you please post some of those case numbers and what you feel has happened?  A customer service rep should be in tomorrow to look at your problems. ... View more

I finally decided to do something about not seeing what machine is doing what unless it was just HTTP traffic... Have multiple internet connections, so multiple routers, all on the same network, helps me see who is using how much and where.     ... View more

Have you tried to see if the applications will work in a version of Wine? ... View more

Jennie, this is NOT a place for family issues/commentation, this is Hughesnet Support. ... View more

Scott, try to disable Web Acceleration if you are on the HT1100 modem.  This should present a different IP to the server your trying to RDP into.  I personally have been able to RDP into a friends remote Win 2k3 server, but, he didn't have IP Filtering on...  IP Filtering will need to take into account the entire Hughes IP block...   Maybe the mods will have a good idea, or see if an engineer can come up with something. To disable 1:  Type or visit http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/index.cgi?Command=1 2: Click on Web Acceleration on the left menu. 3: Click on Control 4: Place a Check-mark into the Disable Web Acceleration box, then click Submit. Let us know if it works for you.  Please note that if the modem is power cycled, or reset for any reason what so ever, Web Acceleration will turn back on by default, also please understand that IPv4 is drying up, anyone that has a public IPv4 address is very lucky, because almost everyone is being pushed through CGN now because no one has any addresses left. Worse comes to worse you can probably "downgrade" to a lower end modem on the business account that does offer a true static address.   ... View more

Annette, if you signed up with DirecTV then your account is through them and not Hughesnet. That aside if you DO have an account with Hughes, please call 1-866-347-3292 as cancellations can not be made over the community site.  Also, when cancelling, please request an immediate cancellation. ... View more

Yep, both are FXP, this was the error I was talking about with mine a few months ago, though the latest versions seem to work a bit better about that loop, it's much less common now. ... View more

Pretty sure it was wanting to assign FE80 or similar on the LAN side, really wish the developers would put more time into fixing IPv6 related issues instead of making things like the RRD graphs pretty... ... View more

I am half tempted to beg you to figure out what I can NOT get figured out... IPv6 with PFSense 2.1RC0 Tue Jul 23 build still fails with IPv6 on my LAN, and WAN it feels like, especially when I have SQUID running locally. When enabled it wants to assign FE: addressing which is a non-routable address from what I can find. The LAN is set to track WAN, but refuses to assign the proper addresses. Changing it at all on my box, will result in the WAN option disappearing for good, till the OS is re-installed. Always fail the IPv6 tests for some reason. ... View more

Told ya they was routable 😉 Though I have learned that certain routers are very poor about IPv6 implementation, especially PFSense and IPCop distros... ... View more

Pretty sure it's around 128MB, being able to telnet into it though, never gonna happen. ... View more

Beefed up as in more RAM (a lot more it seems), not sure about the CPU, but I am going to say that it is also much faster with 80% certainty.... Also has a gigabit port, which, well, has no real point IMO unless you hit some kind of local cache on it. There is also potential for it to act as a print server or a type of NAS in the far future... Though I have doubts about that... Still wish I knew what the USB port was for. As for the weight, I honestly think it's lighter than the 1000, but from pictures it looks like the coax cable is lower, so not as much stress is on the modem? ... View more

To answer the question about the HT1100, networking wise, it is the same as the HT1000. About the only difference I could tell is that it is a beefed up modem. ... View more

KY, I live in KY... I wouldn't mind a nice big juicy steak... xD ... View more