About jcollison251

@Stephens wrote: I did. That's how I discovered the overcharging has been occuring since December 2016. You must have one of those bank accounts that doesn't give you statements and doesn't allow you to access your account online.  I hate those! ... View more

You are sending mass emails to your email lists using a satellite connection?  Am I reading that right?  That seems a bit hillbilly to me.   A shared server with unlimited bandwidth costs $5-10/mo.  Or if you insist on doing things the hillbilly way without an actual server, you can get yourself 5 SOCKS proxies for about $5/month.    Yeah, it's an additional expense, but businesses do have expenses once in a while.  Plus you've said that you've already wasted a lot of time on this, so what's your time worth to you?  You need an IP that you alone are responsible for and have control over, rather than having to go begging to some random ISPs every time issues like this come up.  Trust me, you don't want to continue down this route.  I say that as a programmer who has worked for mass "marketers" (that's the polite term) for 20 years.   By the way, I have used AOL mail for a long time (since they bought out Netscape) and I do miss _tons_ of emails.  Always have.  From reputable big banks, I might add.  There is little you can do as an AOL "customer" except get a real email account.  It's on my todo list. ... View more

@Amanda wrote: I heard about the cancellation e-mail thing.. were you the one who brought this up to Liz? No, that was henrysj in this thread.  And that was over a week ago, so the call centers must be slow with the whip.  I did eventually receive an emailed survey asking why I had canceled, so that served as good enough proof for me.   Understood about wanting the modem back to test it out.  When I had read "replacement" I was thinking that included "upgrade" (Gen4/5), which made less sense. ... View more

I am assuming you used two different SSIDs.  I'd be tempted to temporarily disable 2.4Ghz and see if anything changes.  Then I'd install a wardriving app or something similar on a 5GHz-capable device which shows me the nitty gritty on what's going over the air. ... View more

@GabeU wrote: I would also disable the guest networks.   Can I ask why you'd disable them, even if the guest net has a separate WPA passphrase?  I'm just curious if I missed some vulnerability or made an error in logic.   If a guest needs a wifi connection, I'd rather give them a password to an isolated network rather than give them access to "my" network.  This way, if I've made a mistake with the file sharing config on some seldom-used folder, I don't have guests viewing sensitive files.   ... View more

@dtominski wrote: I got  through to it once.     Other times when the problem begins (unable to load websites), I cannot get through to any HughsNet sites. 192.168.0.1 is not a "Hughesnet site" per se.  I didn't see a valid answer to C0rr0sive's question.  If you can't access whatever.com, then likely you cannot access any.hughesnet.net either, so don't bother trying.    Any "sites" are on a whole different planet from you, almost literally.  Whereas 192.168.0.1 is in your own house.  That's why the question was asked.  You seem to have glossed right over it or answered it with a non-answer. ... View more

I secured mine to the rack with duct tape.  Hillbilly install for a hillbilly connection, that's what I always told myself.   Or if you meant how to secure it electronically, this isn't Hughesnet-related so I think you'd find much better information out there on the web.  Since you do not have a public-facing IP, I'd just do the following (in order) and call it good:   - Change admin password on the router - Disable the WPS! - Set (or change) the wifi password(s) - Remove and burn the sticky note that you just stuck on the router.  Also discard a few blank pages on the sticky note pad behind that sheet, because an impression can be lifted. - Don't give the wife the new wifi password because they just burn your bandwidth on youtube.   That's all I'd do, personally.  If your WPS was ever enabled, it's very important to change the wifi password because some drive-by snooper or neighbor could already have your passphrase.  Disabling WPS will not keep them out now, obviously.  Not without a new passphrase.   Anything else you can do really depends on your router.  I'd want to know about new MAC addresses, but I wouldn't ban unknown ones with filtering.  Guest network stays enabled only if it has a password, and that password obviously is different from your trusted machines network. Me, I just got rid of the guests and therefore solved the guest network problem.   The point is, it all depends on what you want to do and what you want to put up with going forward when using your own stuff.  There's no right answers. ... View more

@tevansnc wrote: I wonder if an unrelated program updated and caused the glitch ? An "unrelated program" like "Bob's Knitting Made Easy for Windows" or something that just happened to know exactly where status-meter.config was, and stomped on it?   Not a chance.   If anyone comes along and gets the error and has not done the fix, please make a copy of status-meter.config first, then after doing the fix, do a comparison between the two versions of the file.  I never had the thing installed, otherwise I'd look into it myself. ... View more

@Darryl   As mentioned, you need to replace 'Username' with your actual username.  But there are also other reasons you might not have such a directory.  Easiest thing to do is just type %AppData% in Windows Explorer, which will take you straight there regardless of how your machine or user account is set up. ... View more

Thanks for the confirmation, Amanda.   That's interesting that it still needs to be returned if the modem is being replaced.   By the way -- Since cancellation confirmation emails are not being sent out, I don't think reps should be telling customers to expect one.  You might want to have the retention department managers send out a memo or administer spankings or whatever they usually do. ... View more

Yes, BirdDog, you did misunderstand my comment.  I didn't say *I* owned any of them.  Anyway, the girl sitting next to me thought it was funny, but then again she's missing some teeth and has had several glasses of apple jack, so that ain't saying much.   If they don't cancel me, all I'm out is $39 for a month of service.  No big deal, because I'd have Chase bank immediately initiate a chargeback (it was a real credit card) and I wouldn't be out anything. Actually that sounds rather fun.  I haven't done a good chargeback in a few months now.   Off-topic, but I'm sad to see HN9000 service being decommissioned.  Where else can you pull down nearly 150 gigs a month, and have _unlimited_ uploads for only $39???  I feel bad for the folks on Gen4/5. ... View more

I wouldn't take that bet, C0rr0sive, because I'm with you:  Even if they have no use for the HN9000 modems, I'll betcha they want them all back.  If for no other reason, because it gives them another potential way to screw over the customer and get a few hundred bucks in fees.  So with nothing in writing, who am I to believe now?   Rentention department is now "retaining" cancellation requests instead of processing them?  You've gotta be kidding me; that one I hadn't heard before.  Unbelieveable.  I did ask for an "immediate" cancellation so they have no excuse to sit on it.    If they don't process that cancellation I'm going to be one upset customer.  If I've learned one thing in my 5-1/2 years out here in the boonies, it's this:  Don't mess with country folks, because they tend to own firearms!  🙂 ... View more

Thanks so much Chris; got them.  That more than makes up for everything. 🙂 ... View more

Ok so they "fixed" the HN9000 times last night apparently.  The only problem is, they did this without ANY warning or explanation to customers.  I had already adjusted my scheduled downloads based on the new time.  So this morning I got hard-throttled. I am rather displeased that I had to burn a restore token because of Hughesnet's incompetence and their subsequent reluctance to send out notification emails to save face.  (This is a regular pattern with Hughesnet.)  I have sent billing support a request for a restore token refund, but I am not holding my breath. ... View more

Johnmc-  The simple answer is: That is just how Hughesnet does business.  I have learned that from the ~4 years I've been with them.  For some reason Hughesnet is always in PR damage control mode.   Even when there's not a huge outage.  Maybe that is the nature of the satellite business; I do not know. Keep in mind this forum is available to potential customers without community accounts, not just registered users.  HN wants to paint a rosy picture of course for those potential customers.  Any company is going to have complaints, but most companies do not have to resort to deleting posts from customers. I'm guessing what happened in this case is a helpful Official Rep posted an announcement about the downtime and then a higher-up eventually saw it and ordered its removal.  "What, are you nuts?  It was the middle of the night; nobody's going to notice.  Take that stuff down at once!" ... View more

You de-orbit the thing and try not to hit anyone.  That would be an "upgrade". ... View more

Why was the announcement thread deleted?  Sweep it under the rug and try to keep the downtime a secret?  Man. ... View more

I do not understand the bit about the Windows 10 upgrade making this a bqd time for an outage. Win10 will still be there next week, will it not? ... View more

I just heard the Russians shot it down! ... View more

What is against the law? Not having usa support? That's funny. ... View more