Nice to hear from Gabe! Happy New Year! I worked for many years in Engineering at Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo, in the Highbay in S1, where spacecfaft are assembled. It is always good news when a bird actually makes it into space. Sometimes, it felt like a miracle. As a former Hughes engineer, I feel qualified to address these issues on a technical level. While it will be a good thing for HughesNet, I seriously doubt the launching of another spacecraft will have much to much to do with solving the current problem. I suspect the (software) access ports, where email data files enter and exit the email server, are congested, due to the general world-wide increase in online data activity resultant from work-at-home and school-at-home. This causing problems at the server and many requests to log into the server end up being denied. It is a semi-intermittent problem. This is a land-based, not a space-based problem. I would GREATLY appreiate it if someone from Hughes Tech Support would weigh in on this discussion. Specifically, what are the data ports you suggest we use these days when setting up email clients? Can you expand the system and add some ports? Should we use SSL or not? Are there any back up server addresses available? Please answer me. I am clearly not the only one having this problem and this has been going on long enough. Robert
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