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I have cleared the snow from the dish. Testing the speeds now would be worthless anyhow as my normal data has been used already. All I can say is in the entire time I have been a hughesnet customer they have never lived up to their own hype. They take 100% of what you agree to pay every month and deliver less than 50% of what they promise 100% of the time. Just googling hughesnet comes up with thousands of posts with people coming to the same conclusion. No solutions though, just the same old "Test it yourself and maybe we can blame a 3rd party" stories. If I could cancel my service without paying an outrageous fee I would. Pretty sad when a mobile hotspot is faster and more reliable than a corporation that charges $90 a month to people they know have no other options. ... View more

There is now and I was expecting to experience issues with connectivity at this time. During the 2am to 6am time frame it was clear skies and no snow on the dish as the storm had not reached us yet. I began the download @ 1:45am and monitored it until 6am to see if there would be a change in download speeds. The download speeds stayed exactly the same from 1:45am (before bonus zone times) to 6am (4hrs into bonus zone time). I was hoping to get work done before the storm but because of the lack of download speed increase during the bonus time it was all for nothing. ... View more

My issue is more that the so called bonus zone is supposed to restore your speeds between 2am and 8am and yet it has rarely ever done so. Even when it does it falls far below even 50% of the 25Mbps Hughesnet boasts and sells people on. For example it is currently snowing and a decrease in network speed or dropped connection is to be expected. However, it is running at the same speeds now after 8am during a snow storm as it was between 2am and 6am with clear skies. My normal data is also at 0% which means during the entire bonus zone time my download speed was still being throttled down. ... View more