| [HN7000S] Want to reconnect, how is the service now? Want to reconnect, how is the service now?
I have been disconnected for a year now and this dial-up killing me. How is the service?
I did dump HughesNet for slow speeds and practically no speed!!
I have the HN7000S, do you think they will make me upgrade? Do you think I will need a re-point??
DO YOU STILL HAVE FREE TIME 2am-6am????? |
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| Yes, there is still the free time, You now get something from 50 MB extra to 25% extra on your daily limit and we now can rollover our usage till we obtain twice the daily limit. With that said, I wouldn't touch a HN7000s with a 10 foot pole anymore. They are slowly doing away with those satellite leases and that is causing the remaining gateways to become more and more congested and there is even a good chance that the gateway you were on before won't even be there any more.
With the 9000 systems and spaceway 3 it seems to be a bit of a crapshoot at this moment on what kind of service you will get. All of these upgrades along with the people transfering from the 7000 and older systems and the customers we inherited from Skyway going bankrupt, the latency is up to an average of around 1000 ms and speeds are dropping to half or more for some customers. They are however working on trying to get this problem fixed and I think they may be gaining some headway.
They have improved quite a bit with trying to make the service better and they now have thier own tech support forum with 4 or 5 customer service rep.'s and tech support people that cruise the forums every weekday trying to get problems fixed in a reasonable time. And of course their are also the upgrades to the FAP that I mentioned and probably about June or July they will have a new satellite go online that hopefully will end congestion for good and give much higher speeds and higher caps. So all in all, things are maybe starting to look up.
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HughesNet elite plan/.74 dish w/1watt trans. / 9000 modem / 3 computers on a linksy's wired network |
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| reply to Cabarett
zeddlar's summary is pretty good; but this is my average experience of Hughesnet 6+ hours a day since November or so:
From Speakeasy:
Download Speed: 46 kbps (5.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 184 kbps (23 KB/sec transfer rate)
YMMV. |
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 grohgregDunno. Ask The Chief
join:2001-07-05
Dawson Springs, KY | reply to Cabarett
Mine improved measurably over the last few months. I've been on the ProPlus plan for years, and quite accustomed to a reasonably consistent 1200 down and 180 up. At that time the FAP threshold was 425MB for the 19 hours outside the 0200-0700 unlimited window. Now it's running a pretty consistent 2000 down and 230 up, with an increased FAP threshold of 475MB. Price remains unchanged at $80/mo.
Assuming you cancelled with a paid-up account, try to recommission on any transponder on the same satellite you were on. Only then will you know if you can stay on the same bird, or have to repoint.
//greg//
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HN7000S - 98cm Prodelin/2w "pure" Osiris - ProPlus - G16/1010H - NOC:GTN - NAT 67.142.115.130 - Gateway 66.82.25.10 - DNS 66.82.4.12 and 66.82.4.8 - Firefox 8/MSIE9 - AV/Firewalled by NIS2012 |
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