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concearned

@Level3.net

hughesnet

I just ordered hughesnet they are putting it in tomarrow i am nervous now about what i am reading but we have no other options i have called everyone and no one offers service out here in bfe tennessee down in this holler we get dial up only and it is 26kbps with excellerator do you think the hughesnet will at least be better than what i have? just lookin for info thx


jojo

@rr.com

it is slightly better than dial up, but if you have any other option go for it. for the basic package, there is a 200mb bandwidth limit per day. that means that you can only watch maybe 30 mins of video and then it cuts you off the service for 24 hours. sometimes windows updates alone will use all 200mb and then it shuts off the internet the whole day. they say its unlimited from 3-6am eastern time, but its so inconvenient a time that i bearly took advantage. it is slow internet though. just got cable again after two years with hughsnet. could not be happier to have them out of my life. oh and they didnt come to take the freakin heavyass satelite down. i literally just finished taking it off the roof, scared i was gonna fall, and ran in to fume and write this scathing review. f- for hughsnet..they just want your money. i have twenty days to return the satelite (which i have to pay for shipping) or get charged another $300. theyre such dicks. hope this saves ppl the headache. i hear internet phones like the 3g, can make your phone a wireless hotspot and this makes more sense to use cause you get a phone and internet. i heard though they just put bandwith limits on the iphone so no unlimited downloading... take your pick but i would go with something else definately.


zeddlar

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Jay, OK
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said by concearned :

I just ordered hughesnet they are putting it in tomarrow i am nervous now about what i am reading but we have no other options i have called everyone and no one offers service out here in bfe tennessee down in this holler we get dial up only and it is 26kbps with excellerator do you think the hughesnet will at least be better than what i have? just lookin for info thx
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I am not sure exactly what the thirty day thing was about but I saw a few complain about it back when the 9000 systems first came out but I havn't seen anyone complain about it in a year or so. I upgraded to the 9000 from my hn7000s business system back in June and I still get 2.1Mb/s down and 250kb/s up consistantly. There is latency of course but you will only have problems with that if you play shooter or mmorpg games and you will also have trouble with telephone or vpn systems of course. You can play mmorpg games but you have to adapt somewhat to the latency and be willing to just log off and come back later if the lag gets to great cause it usually doesn't last to long and some games like EQ2 and regular EverQuest do a pretty good job of managing server latency which makes those games playable pretty much full time.
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