About cait90113

@maratsade wrote: " I'm hoping it's a technology issue on Hughesnet side that can be fixed, and not that they are limiting user access to nonessential sites during this time, because I'm paying for this internet service just like everyone else, essential or not."   It's congestion; too many users on a finite system, and this is causing big issues. Satellite internet is expensive and finite, and when a catastrophe like this pandemic happens and people are all at home trying to work and learn using the finite system, issues happen. The capacity cannot be expanded.  It would be nice if a lot of those people stopped all the streaming they're doing, which is data intensive and is really bringing down the network for people who want to do their job or go to school.    We're all paying for services that aren't working well due to the chaos in this country at the moment: people paying insurance premiums can't get surgeries done these days.      Most of us have not lived through a crisis so we don't know how to adapt, but adapting is crucial and will become more so in the days and weeks to come, so time to learn.    And ultimately, if a service you pay for is not to your liking, you have the choice, as a consumer living in a free country, to terminate the service.  I'm not sure if you meant to come across as snarky as this did, but I don't appreciate it.   I've never been able to stream with this internet service. If people can they are lucky. I understand everything you just said, and it could've been said without the implied tone. I'm sorry that as an essential worker I am still going to work daily and would like to be able to come home use the internet we pay for even just to browse the internet. Forget streaming or gaming or watching YouTube, I would just like to be able to get websites to load. All I hope with this forum post is to get help, not get a condescending response.   And you're absolutely right, as a citizen of a free country I can absolutely get my internet from somewhere else, except where I live in this free country I cannot get any other internet service except Hughesnet.   Thank you for your explanation of what I had already assumed was happening. I hope you have a good day. ... View more

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I usually will only get this bad of service if I've exceeding the usage cap. But we have not even exceeded that yet, and I have been having issues connecting. It's not even detecting we have wifi on a few devices, and I know it isn't the router because my desktop connects via wifi and I was able to post in this forum last night via the desktop. But if I tried to run anything more complicated than basic websites it would not put them up.   I'm honestly glad to see I'm not the only one having connection issues. I'm hoping it's a technology issue on Hughesnet side that can be fixed, and not that they are limiting user access to nonessential sites during this time, because I'm paying for this internet service just like everyone else, essential or not. ... View more