Find The Plan That's Right For You Hughes Net has two package options: "Their Tortoise Package" "Or Their Snail Package" ************************************************************************************************************ OK so this is what they advertise straight from their Web pages: Introducing a Super-Fast SATELLITE INTERNET EXPERIENCE Always on. Always Connected. You're always online with HughesNet®. No signing in. No dialing up. Get a constant, reliable connection wherever you live. HughesNet works with PCs, Macs, laptops, desktops, and much more while offering speeds up to 15 Mbps1! HughesNet Gen4 offers greater download capacity, which means you can do more of what you love online. Connect, talk, share, shop, bank, and more. ************************************************************************************************************ Now for the real truth "Buyer Beware"! As for "Always Connected" part that's not true as you have to constantly reset the modem, as it heats up and locks up all the time. And as for the "always online" only as far as Hughes Net draining your Data Usage, as I have disconnected my computer overnight and the next morning GB's of Data gone! Then the statement "Get a constant, reliable connection wherever you live." is the most untrue statement ever, as when I contacted them because the fastest speed that I ever got was around 512 Kbps (at it's fastest) and most of the time around 56 Kbps, I was then told that those speeds where not available in my area yet here they keep charging my the excessively high price for the less than poor service. As for their statement "HughesNet works with PCs, Macs, laptops, desktops, and much more while offering speeds up to 15 Mbps" starting with my PC about 90% of the files I have downloaded (including 2 different versions of HughesNet Status Meter software) is corrupt, along with finding that when I reboot my computer there are files being damaged on my C Drive. As for trying to use a MAC I tried using a iPad 3 with a banking App that all it would do the first two months was lock up, then when trying it with an android phone could not get it to accept the check deposits due to corrupt uploads. Over the past three months I have to resend CAD files for network drawings as more than 50% of the time they are corrupt and that's only when they don't fail when attaching to e-mail.. Then in their last statement "HughesNet Gen4 offers greater download capacity, which means you can do more of what you love online. Connect, talk, share, shop, bank, and more" this is the biggest lie of all: One time it took 12 hours for me to upload two files (1 CAD & 1 pdf) about 6MB due to the the corruption of the data from the HughesNet network. Every time that I have to upload network drawing files for my work it takes multiple retry's and most of the time it's faster and less headaches for me to drive into town to upload those files. Over the past three months I have been keeping records of how there is these huge losses of data when I am not even downloading anything and the first two months all the data is gone in just one week. The third month I did not even go on and check e-mail and my data lasted only two weeks. As for the last part there is no way most of that would even be possible as Skype & Facetime won't even load on HughesNet, lost bids on eBay because it's too slow, missed sale items on Newegg because the Web page wouldn't load and as far as for banking out of dozens of times of trying to make bank deposits on HughesNet only got it to work twice. Then another thing that you need to be aware of is that when you signup they do not tell you that they automatically will be deducting from your bank account (even though they never got your permission or even informed you that they would be doing this) otherwise there is an extra five dollar charge!
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