About ljaj2008

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

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

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

Hey... I have CenturyLink DSL at my house I am moving out of, and HughesNet at the farm I am moving to. When we moved in here, we got the DSL service. Both pairs in the six pair cable they run here (when I dispatched phone techs in Colorado, we called that a "drop" - ah, rural living) are not good enough for consistent DSL signal. We have had very bad (slows down to a crawl, sometimes turns off entirely three, four, twelve hours at a time, never tests above 1.5 MBPS) DSL service here for almost EIGHT years. Since it is a slightly damaged sheath that allows liquid in, it is a very mild short to ground that can self repair temporarily by the added voltage used when they test the pair. So, every time I call to complain about this chronic problem, they exchange my modem and assure me that a tech will look into it. Terrible service. Eight years. The good? With DSL service you don't worry about data limits, what you are streaming, what's left, disabling flash, disabling autoplay of videos, whether or not someone will forget to turn off WiFi on their cell phone... data is just always there, no worries (unless you are at my house, then you can expect two to twelve hours a day with no internet available on your always on, no limits data connection). Getting used to HughesNet is a learning curve for me and it is frustrating me. I am figuring out a data leak right now. I also added unlimited data to two 4G-LTE phones to make our data habits not completely painful to change. Between HotSpot data available to share on those phones and our Primetime data from Hughes, we have 36GB per month whenever plus the 50GB at night. Won't be quite as unconcerned about what I do on the internet at our farm compared to the old place, but the new location required that I make the change. ... View more