" Then why offer a service that it is supposed to work and it does not." You are assuming that because it does not work for you it does not work for anyone else. It works for a lot of people, and it doesn't work for others -- you appear to be one of the others. "Please explain to me what is Hughesnet good for besides collecting a montly payment and abysmal service?" It's an ISP. With limitations caused by the nature of the technology, you can basically do pretty much everything. Again, with limitations. Data intensive activities may suffer, especially during times of high congestion. "Why am i paying $70 a month and not even been able to check my emails." You can cancel any time. You can also work with the techs to improve your service. You can also adjust your expectations to the reality that satellite internet is not like terrestrial internet. Hopefully part of your research pre-subscribing including reading the legally binding subscriber agreement, which sets the limitations of the service and informs you that speeds and performance are not guaranteed. The website also has disclaimers regarding the limitations of the service. At $70 a month, you will be paying $1680 over the life of the agreement. The ETF is $400. You might consider unsubscribing and finding something else. This is a subscriber to subscriber community. I'm a subscriber and have no shares in the company. The staff have the word Moderator next to their names.
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