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Thank you. I haven't tested in well over a year. I remembered the website, but couldn't remember the file size! 🙂 Weather has dried out and warmed up a little, maybe I will be able to get a test in Monday morning. Tomorrow is my son's senior prom, and Sunday is church. ... View more

My modem only has one ethernet port, and the router is there to allow wireless connections mostly. It doesn't have wireless connectivity. ... View more

Yes. Everything in the network is set for dynamic addressing. ASUS router has been replaced by a DP-Link. New router worked seamlessly the first day, this cropped up about 60 hours after install. Used DHCP settings to give the router 129.168.1.1 through 129.168.1.199 to assign because default ip address for the router is 129.168.0.1. I have an HT1100. Been a customer nearly 2 years. Everything connects through the router to get to the modem, in part because the modem is in another building. We need to have it moved, but are debating which company to use going forward. I didn't realize that there were better plans available. When I go to upgrade plans on the app here (I don't use Hughesnet because of how expensive and limited the data plan is; I do all internet off my cell phone) all it offers are the same plans available when I signed up. I think the next jump up in data is something like 25GB for $129. Those numbers made Exede's offerings look really impressive. 😕 ... View more

Oops! Second speed there is upload. ... View more

Or it could be the router was going. This morning was not as fast as I would have liked. Maybe tomorrow morning I can test it. Like I said, I usually leave all the internet access to my husband, because 10GB is not enough for two of us. I miss being able to stream videos like the good ol' days, but satellite internet has no real competition out in the rural areas, and no one wants to invest in the infrastructure to provide it. The attitude is, "If internet is so important to you, move." This morning the internet acted as it was supposed to. I gave up expecting consistency/high speed over a year ago. If hubby keeps getting dropped, I might take a look to make sure all the lights are right and reset the system, but I gave up speed testing, etc., and except for low quality YouTube, we do our best to only use it for my husband to read news websites. But connectivity is back. Maybe I will speed test through router and directly tomorrow morning if it is not raining and not too cold out. Just can't motivate myself to leave a dry, warm bed to carry a laptop to the garage through cold rain! 😛 ... View more

I admit to suspecting the router. Or the LAN cable. Not being able to see the modem when it is hardwired to it and the DHCP server has an IP address range that will not conflict seemed a little suspicious to me. 😕 ... View more

I did finally get the modem at 128.168.0.1 while installing the new router today (hubby got impatient and told me to order one on Friday). First time that gave me anything other than, "Can't connect to the internet." All but the top "throttled" were green check marks. I have an Ethernet port. No idea on hubby's computer. I try to not use it much. His conspiracy theory websites sooner or late seem to give him weird continuous pop-ups that make me crazy after awhile. Since we use the restricted bandwidth rules (reduced video quality, with most videos left for early morning or insomnia viewing), our only guess on being throttled so early is maybe a MS Office update triggered when we resubscribed to it after attempting to use it a couple weeks ago (it had been autopaid out of a lost debit card, and when we weren't using it, we didn't notice it expired). We even run the network as metered connections! The throttled was a bit of a head scratcher, but we are willing to put up with it. The on and off again internet, though, has been really a frustrating, hair-pulling unhappiness. ... View more

And yes. I am upset. Things were working fine, nothing changed, and now I get 5 second bursts of connectivity. Going to the modem setup during the day didn't help when it actually pulled it up - sometimes when internet goes, it all goes. Having someone making sure the problem isn't on your side could be helpful for expensive decisions like, "Do I need to replace my wireless router?" I know intermittent issues are hard to figure out sometimes. I also know I don't have regular minutes and the 50GB goes from 2 am to 8am, every day. I even told them in the memo. I have been using my cell phone as a wireless hotspot so my husband can use his laptop, and that is supposed to be data to let me run an art and photography website, because 10GB/month isn't enough interner for a family. ... View more

I have noticed most questions here are actually people trying to avoid their ETF. It took time to work out my speed issues, and the data issues were on my side. I never had unreasonable expectations about what could be done with 10GB of data. SOMETIMES, they are also customers who are tired of data caps who had new service enter the area. For some reason, I am always happy when a customer chooses to learn to work with the system. It can be done. We always end up doing everything possible to burn through the last 40% of our data before we reset, since we don't use it all. ... View more

I watch two or three hours of Netflix every night miracasting my phone to the television. "Unlimited?" Depends on how much television entertains you, I guess. If I am not watching the program, I don't run it in the background for noise factor. ... View more

I watch two or three hours of Netflix every night miracasting my phone to the television. "Unlimited?" Depends on how much television entertains you, I guess. If I am not watching the program, I don't run it in the background for noise factor. ... View more

Ask.the moderators to pull and review your original sales call. They are recorded. ... View more

This forum has made me happy that I looked for it first instead of calling customer service when I had trouble. 🙂 ... View more

Farrguy, most of us end up surprised and frustrated when we find this out after the fact (I know I did). This forum is a great place for information, though, so I am glad you found it. Somewhere there is a thread of recommendations of information HughesNet should include in a "welcome to our service" booklet. ... View more

Thanks Champs! Congratulations, gwalk! ... View more

Cuddlebug, I am so happy you are getting help from people! ... View more

I don't have my laptop with me, or I could show you evening tests around 15-16 MBPS. I think the data caps are your problem possibly? There are ways to work within them, that makes it last longer. Now...I would be totally ticked by the hold and hangups, too. Hopefully one of the employees here can help you with that. However, if you don't have a lot of other choices, there are ways to make this work better for you. ... View more

This is tonight at our old house, phone company DSL: ... View more

Not fooled, you seem to be confused. I was offered dial-up by my DSL (local phone company) provider for our new location and I think it was 512 KBPS. I haven't had data management problems of a real sort yet - we aren't living there full-time. Soon (hopefully next week!). Anyhow. This is this morning's speed test (on HughesNet) by testmy.net. The next image will be from my home tonight. My DSL is working tonight at expected speeds. A lot of nights I get DNS errors, etc... ... View more

She is lovely, Gwalk. I have three dogs (Merri, a Lab/Pyrenees mix; Hank, a Wheaten Terrier mix (our best guess), and Princess, a Pyrenees we use as a livestock guardian dog for chickens (about forty, including bantam and large fowl), Nubian goats (four does, five doelings, and one buck) and our five guinea fowl. We also have five cats (Mr Twisty, Ashekebibbles, Duchess, George and Boomerang/KrazyCat). Then there are the horses. The two posted are Fyre (4-year old Egyptian Arabian; his grandsire is Thee Desperado) and Midnight. Midnight is the dam of my colt and yearling. Their sire is the sire of Fyre. They are both black, with Shadow having a star and two white feet, and Joey being all black (but bleaching to seal easily). ... View more

This sweet guy (Four this year, with my granddaughter) and his brothers, plus location... peace, quiet and family are what makes my terribly expensive lifestyle so worthwhile. I will pay more for internet... ... View more

sgoshe - we are having steep and plastic delivered to prep having floor poured for our earth contact home here at the new farm. We don't have a lot of trees close to the house- 189 acres, 109 tillable, the rest mostly in pasture, maybe ten acres or so in trees. The house we are leaving though, has a winding drive, a concrete bridge over an intermittent stream that takes you into a three acre clearing. It feels almost enchanted driving there. I am a little sad to be going, but the wetlands, and the seven-acre lake, and the little wooded creek... the new place, for all of its fences, fields and barns, also has its own charms. So neat that you are building, too! We ended up putting a camper at the building site so we could keep all the livestock together and refinish the hardwood floors and other projects before putting our old house up for sale. What are you doing while building? ... View more

I need to find all the places to schedule those... otherwise I am starting them manually when I am up for the bathroom one of my four or five times each night. Puppylover, I have to agree with Jezra. This doesn't seem like a good fit for you. I have never been able to have cable internet, or fiber (except at work for the phone company). The most recent experience was 1.5MBPS DSL on a bad pair that the local phone company refuses to replace (no good pairs to cut to). The phone company has been allowing my internet to regularly fail daily for EIGHT YEARS. They refuse to replace 50 yards of six pair cable. When I lived in Denver, our techs used six-pair wire as a drop! I know I can manage our network and expectations to be content with HughesNet. I also can appreciate what else I have here where there are no other internet choices: Egyptian and Polish Arabians, cattle, chickens, Nubian goats, wildflowers, being on many bird and butterfly migration routes, living near a private managed wetlands.and being able to see it from my living room window. I have expensive internet, expensive electricity, longer drives and higher gasoline prices. Often propane is higher than natural gas prices. It is, for whatever reason, expensive to live where my neighbors are more than a quarter mile away in any direction. In a weird way, it made doubling the cost of my access while cutting it severely kind of expected. I was hoping to have high speed internet (the phone company said it was here on their website - it lied). But, no luck. Yes. Leave Hughes. Spend the money on cable internet with no latency, no weather issues, etc. Most of us if we had other options would take them. Cable internet gets you more for your money than satellite. ... View more

I admit to still marveling at my cell phone. I can remember predicting the day that miniaturization would let me put my hands on a computer more powerful than the overgrown 128K calculators sold as hand-held computers, but when I look at my phone and its capabilities (and the resolution of its touch-enabled screen!), I still am impressed. ... View more

Why move to a limited (has data caps) service when you had an unlimited one? I admit that I had misgivings about keeping HughesNet after discovering I could get 4G LTE here, and couldn't find anything for sure about the 30-day grace period in time to make the decision easy, so I shrugged and figured we would just stick with it because it would be a good thing for my non-tech hubby. That is because I know the service is expensive and that 10GB of data is not very much. I see a post every other week by someone who wants to go back to cable. I never would have chosen data capped internet over unlimited where unlimited was available. So I wonder - is it the satellite making it seem "space age," a belief that 10GB is a lot of data? (If you are my age, and started learning BASIC programming on a TRS-80 Model I, and had a 640K 20MB computer while selling them when we were assured the MS-DOS couldn't use more than 1MB of RAM and could only use 640K for regular program use... I can see 10GB seeming huge if you hadn't owned another device since)... ... View more

I really want to know - you had cable with internet available? What made you choose to switch to satellite internet? ... View more

Hi! 🙂 What they said... 😉 My first month with HughesNet went swimmingly. As someone who had run her own wireless network for more than ten years, set up, subnetting and security were licked, I thought. The last couple days of my first month we stayed overnight where the service is located (we are moving there and living in a camper while we sell our old house and wait for the new one to be built) and streamed a lot of Netflix, Hulu, Sling and Amazon Prime with no issues. I was thrilled! Then the next month came. A local young man who was unemployed was helping my husband out with a few things (last night the kid was confused and believed his cell phone was messing up the modem/router from the phone company HERE - he honestly doesn't understand networking at all; I am sure it was his phone, not him). He had a NetTen prepaid cell phone that he watches videos and streams music on in his spare time. It never occurred to me that it might piggyback off my data without logging into my network. In the meantime, I was here at the wired, non-HN house packing, and no other internet using devices were even AT the new farm that week. Nada. Zip. Zero. And almost fifteen percent of my data disappeared! Worse, when I get back there, suddenly I can't even get on a web page! Now... the tech who installed my service said HughesNet themselves had noticed issues with my speed and asked to come out and fix it. He left, still no speed improvement. I get on here and have a meltdowns because my data disappeared without me using it and the speeds suck. I pull up the graphing on the little data manager thing you can install to your tray... and my data disappeared every time that kid took a break. I go and resecure my router... the next time the data STILL disappeared. He insisted he wasn't logging on... so I MAC filtered the router. Solved that problem. Started asking about router slowing speeds, found a thread about third-party firmware... figured if I bricked the router I would buy a new router... which I would replace if I couldn't speed up performance anyhow... so I put on new firmware... and get 18MBPS download speeds now. I feel kind of bad hating on HughesNet in my one post. Though, when I had no issues one month, then had everything go south at once, I can see where I would think something on their side messed up. Worse, I thought I knew what I was doing. Things like subnetting conflicts, etc... those I had covered. My router inconsistently slowing down throughput because of satellite latency? That's like having a car that only makes a certain noise the second Tuesday of every month when there isn't a mechanic to hear it! Have some patience and ask some questions. The users here seem happy to help. I am hoping to learn a lot from them, so I can help, too. ... View more