| HughesNet has always sucked The youngsters out there probably don't remember the class action suit (Cary Barron et al. v. Hughes Electronics Corporation, Case No. 189113, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, MD 1999) brought by subscribers against Hughes back in the late 1990's (where the Plaintiffs' class action lawyers "settled" for their legal fees paid by Hughes BEFORE a single deposition was taken and over the written objections of ALL of the named Plaintiffs). Nothing has changed, except the name (from DirecPC to DirecWay to HughesNet). Back then they did not even admit FAP and afterward basically said "So what?".
They don't have the bandwidth (and at that time had a gateway problem). I would assume that they are probably using their satellite bandwidth to deliver HD for DirecTV and moving HughesNet subscribers to the back of the line.
Unlike DirecTV, which is run by professionals rather than clowns, HughesNet has been and always will be a joke (and a bad one at that). |
