A contract should be a "two-way" street. Hughesnet does not deliver what it promises.
I am a new Hughesnet subscriber and I am distraught over the poor quality of the service. My plan calls for a 3-5 mg upload, which isn't much; but consistently, I am able to receive only .40 or less. Yes, that's .40. I teach on Zoom and am going to have to refund money to my students and not offer any future classes. I have done everything that is possible to boost my upload speed: moving my laptop to the router, turning off other equipment that might draw service while I am teaching. I have spent hours online with customer representatives who have been unfailingly kind and patient, but I am told that because I am at the "end of the range", my service cannot be improved. I signed a binding two-year contract with a large cancellation fee, but I am receiving only a very small portion of what Hughesnet promised. Yes, they do say that my upload speed MIGHT be as much as 3-5 mg. It seems that I should be receiving more than 1/10th of this amount. Where does the responsibility rest for a company to promise what it says it will deliver? I would not recommend this service to anyone and am considering writing articles publicly to share my experience. Before I do this, however, I will contact the legal department of Hughesnet. That is my next step. Perhaps there will be a satisfactory resolution. I will post again with the conclusion of my very disappointing experience with this internet provider.2.2KViews1like1CommentAccount renewed when I was trying to cancel and no one told me
I've been trying to cancel my service with them for months now. The first man I talked to some months back had told me to wait until December 6th to cancel so I wouldn't have to pay a termination fee and that marks the end of my contract also. I said alright and dealt with it. He said we could lower my package since that would still leave me with something.... the service doesn't work here and it will shut off whenever there's some wind or if it rains. I hated the fact I was paying so much money for that crap service. About a month or so later I called again. I was willing to pay the termination fee because I needed it to be over with. That lady sat there and gave me the run around and was trying to tell me to change all this stuff and she kept running diagnostics or whatever. Then I was supposed to been getting a call from a tech person and do more stuff. I gave up on all of that and I was so freaking annoyed. I call today and the first person ended up hanging up on me... I called again and this time I'm finally getting somewhere .... or at least I thought. I told the guy that I wanted to cancel my service since December is next month and the guy I spoke to months ago said to do it before December 6th. This guy did the whole run around with the apologies and wanted to know what I was switching to and what I was trying to use the internet for and blah blah blah. I'm not even mad at that because that's their job. What made freaking mad was this. I told him I didn't want to do any of the modifications and that I just wanted to cancel since I was told to do it before that December date since that's when my contract cancels. This dude tells me that my contract won't be over until September... 2022!!!! What the actual heck!??! I'm so confused because I was originally told to wait until December to cancel and now I'm stuck another year.... I didn't want another contract!!!! I want to be done with this!!! I don't like the fact that I'm paying that much for service that shuts out so easily and can't do anything even with the simplest device!!! I'm so over this and I just want hughesnet out of my house. I can't believe I was lied to and when I told the guy what I was originally told months ago he said that the first guy gave me wrong information.... I waited this freaking long just to find out I was put into another contract... I really hate this service and I don't recommend it!!3.7KViews0likes2Comments