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HATE this INTERNET!
The advertising for this internet company is VERY deceiving! I'm stuck only because nobody else services my house but I get MAYBE one movie a month on a plan I pay $70/month for after taxes. After that, I have to deal with constant hang ups or lags - sometimes every 2 minutes. I ended up buying a "dongle" for my TV & I attach my phone to it and use my mobile network to stream movies instead of using this worked internet. The only time I use Hughesnet is for downloading documents because I'm a book editor & need to get large documents several times a month. If there were a way to sue this company for false advertising, for claiming they have such good service with all of those smiling people on the website, on their brochure and... Ugh! DON'T BELIEVE IT! I've had Comcast, AT&T, and several other internet providers and bar none, Hughesnet is the ABSOLUTE WORST OF THE WORST! People here have mentioned a termination fee, & I swear, if I go to cancel & they want me to pay something like that, I'll have a fit! That's prolly why they make you autopay, so they can just TAKE what THEY say you owe when you don't pay the ETF's.14KViews4likes8Comments
Nothing but problems
Ive had Hughesnet for 12 years now and it has been nothing but problems. If its not super slow internet its not working at all. Ive had probably 10 technicians come out and not be able to fix anything. Finally they moved my dish and it helped for a few months. Then right back to problems. Ive probably spent over 24 hours on the phone with support trying to hear and understand what their saying through their thick accents from India or Mexico. My internet connection has been down for weeks now. A tech came out and it worked for maybe an hour or two and now its down again. He says its working even when I send him a pic of my wifi saying its not. The next day he sends me 3 pics of everyone else's internet saying the same thing. They charge $73 for slow broken internet with barely any data per month and when it breaks constantly they expect you to pay extra to get it fixed. Thats ridiculous!! If you pay for working internet and it doesn’t work, you shouldn't be charged because they can’t hold up their end of the deal. I move out April 1st and I pray I never have to use Hughesnet ever again. They suck all around all the time. I would curse to relay just how much they suck but Im not going to.2.6KViews3likes2CommentsNew Gen 5 owner in Northern California (slow as molasses)
Hi, new Gen 5 owner in Northern Calfornia, near Sacramento up in the foothills. Service installed yesterday. Slow very slow speeds. Called tech support at Hughes today and they said they will escalate the call to engineering which means another 2 to 3 business days before I get help. Kind of stinks since it was just installed yesterday. Anyway, last speed test I ran was 1.1Mbps down. Sheesh. Went through over an hour call with Hughes today running tests and such just to prove I am getting slow speeds. Then told have to wait until next week to get it looked at. http://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=09292017&x=2&l=25&q=macsociety In case this can help.... I am pointed at: Satellite NameEchoStar-19-NAD Gateway ID8 Beam ID55 Outroute ID7 Thanks for the ear. ThomasSolved100KViews2likes296Comments
Internet speed
I would like to know how you can claim that your Gen 5 service is the fastest internet I can get.....I was in Oregon visiting my father in the hospital last week....I stayed in an air-bnb that had Centurylink 'land line' internet service - I was amazed how much faster it was than the Gen 5 service I get from Hughesnet.......why is that? Now that I'm home using my own service - I find it disappointing. It's so slow....I have stuff that won't even load up on my service that I could get to load on the 'land line' service in Oregon......that just doesn't seem right somehow......3.5KViews2likes2Comments
H.N Fraud
My internet was set up two months ago Beginning was as slow as it is now. I was sold and told "great fast internet that I can stream videos and have my cameras connected to" "30gb of satellite data is the same as hundreds of LTEgb Data" I was then told my internet is slow because it is winter where I live. Now the weather is fine and they have confirmed the satilite is receiving a full signal. I spoke with 4 different tech support agents on the phone no one could help. I spoke with 2 people that said they were managers that sounded like they were in a bar they said they did "different' tests and to call back in a couple days if it didn't solve my issues. I called back talked to multiple tech support agents again that did the same things and that I had to tell them what was going on again and again and again. They then sent a tech to my business. They replaced every single piece of hardware and nothing worked to fix it. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!My speed is 0.02mbps Average!!!!!!!!!!!!! testmy.net gives me a download speed of 0.02 mbps with one device connected. The tech was here in person and got the exact same problem. Hey called tech support once again for me and was on the phone with them for an hour. They said no one has ever seen this and to wait two hours. I then called after I waited a whole 6 hours. I was sent to 3 different people and after an hour and a half made it to a nice manager that said he was going to wave my cancelation fee of almost $800 thats along with the $300 visa I was told I would get if I signed up. The manager sent me to an account manager that said I had to still pay the $800 Then he said I needed to go back to tech support AGAIN. I talked to three more people after that and was told now I need to wait two days again. This is outrageous. I have contacted legal counsel and will spend as much money as it takes to make sure I will not have to pay a cancelation fee for 0.02mbps average speed. Ive been lied to hung up on and transferred at least 30 times and everyone acts like they have no idea whats going on and pretends theres nothing they can do to help or that they don't know anyone that can help. THIS IS FRAUD. FBI AND BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU WILL NOT STOP RECEIVING PROOF OF FRAUD UNTIL MY INTERNET IS DISCONNECTED AND MY ACCOUNT IS DELETED I am a reasonable person and signed up for internet around 40mbps I am getting 0.02 thats 99.98% slower than the customer average. I am available anytime of the day or night. This is illegal. I signed a contract for a service that I am not receiving. You are going against the contract not me.13KViews1like20CommentsNo reliable Internet since install in Dec 2018 and Mods stopped replying to me over a month ago.
No reliable Internet since install in Dec 2018 and Mods stopped replying to me over a month ago. I haven't had a moderator reply to my problem in over a month, Whats the deal? My bill is paid and I still don't have reliable Internet. I am tired of dumping money down the drain and no one is willing to help me sort this out. I have had this problem from day one when I had this installed in December 2018. I had a tech sent out here over a month ago and all he did was check the connections and connect his phone to Netflix for 30 seconds and tell me it was working, How is connecting his phone to my Internet for less than a minute going to tell him my Internet is working? Last I was told was I was being referred to the Home Tech Support department Free of Charge and then I was told by HTS it was going cost me around $200 for them to connect to my devices to fix the problem. I shouldn't have to pay to have my Internet fixed when it has never worked from the beginning and besides my devices work fine when they are not connected to HughesNet. I either want my Internet fixed and get the speeds advertised or terminate my account without early termination fees.Solved9.1KViews1like6Comments
