| reply to Dave1970
Re: HughesNet Gen 4 (USA Latest News) Rumor has it Gen4 will start October 1st. Probably a pretty safe bet assuming all the testing (currently going on now) goes without any major problems. |
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| said by OldSatUser:Rumor has it Gen4 will start October 1st. I saw that in an article I was scanning the other day, but have no idea which one now. |
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| reply to ricky_005
I haven't noticed if this has been posted in this forum:
Frontier Communications and Hughes Announce Wholesale Agreement to Provide Satellite Broadband Services
Several hundred thousand households and businesses targeted for new Frontier Broadband Service
»www.marketwatch.com/story/fronti···12-07-24 |
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| reply to Arion
said by Arion:They are trying to sign up people for Gen 4 already. The BUC on my HN7000S went TU and the local installer tells me he can't get a replacement KU transmitter so I have to do an upgrade. He could get one if he tried... the HughesNet distributors still have them and ship them daily, and we do fulfillment service calls and replace them all of the time, so it sounds like they just want to make a sale or cash in on an upgrade or something! |
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| I talked (really) to the Hughes people in July. They said they really plan on making G4 available when the new Jupiter satellite goes up. They thought it would be in August. I wonder if that was the launch that just crashed. |
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1 edit | 1) It is Echostar 17....not Jupiter
2) It was launched successful on July 5th
3) The satellite is in testing now for Gen4 service
4) The target start date (if beta testing is successful) for Gen4 service is October 1st
FYI...The rocket that just failed was a Russian rocket carrying a couple of foreign satellites. However, it was the same kind of rocket that carried Viasat-1 last fall. |
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
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Billings, MT | said by OldSatUser:1) It is Echostar 17....not Jupiter Um.. Yes it is. Technically, it's Jupiter 1.
»www.satbeams.com/satellites?id=2497 |
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| I guess that is why your link points to a page titled Echostar-17.
It hasn't been known as Jupiter 1 for months as it was renamed when Echostar bought Hughesnet. |
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said by OldSatUser:4) The target start date (if beta testing is successful) for Gen4 service is October 1st
Echostar's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
August 8, 2012
"We expect to begin commercial operations by the end of September"
»seekingalpha.com/article/792101-···t=single
It hasn't been known as Jupiter 1 for months |
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| reply to ricky_005
it's been called echostar 17 for months. even the reps over on the hughesnet forum call it echostar 17
»community.myhughesnet.com/hughes···g_closer |
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| reply to DrStrangLov
Yeah Karl has it covered. But its all good.
»[NEWS] Frontier Starts Reselling HughesNet Broadband Services |
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 dbirdmanPremium,MVM
join:2003-07-07
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kudos:5 | reply to Simba7
Satbeams typically shows the current name of a satellite, with all former names or synonyms shown in parentheses. You can see that this satellite started out known as Spaceway 4, then became Jupiter 1, and now is Echostar 17. It could be renamed any number of times in the future if the satellite were to change owners, or the owners change their naming schemes.
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| reply to A Tech
Any details of plans to be offered in the US yet? |
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I'm not paying squat for the upgrade!!! I've been paying these crooks outrageous fees for years and not getting anywhere near the speeds I'm supposed to. They can take their upgrade fees out of all the money I've been paying every month. I've already expressed my anger of having to pay to (maybe) get the service I should have been getting all these years. They said "don't worry, you won't have to". We'll see. |
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| I agree...we shouldn't have to pay a dime for a freaking upgrade... But what choice do we have?
Monopolist.......Muahahahahah
I guess you could email them and say like .... Hope you all Burn in HELL you Thieves! |
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1 edit | reply to ricky_005
Expect to hear more substantial information about Gen4 sometime in the first part of next week (the 14th or 15th I would say). From what I have heard, dealers will be getting more information about it then.
I think the original plan was to release more details the week of August 6th, but that date obviously got pushed back. I think we will know a lot more shortly! |
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| surely hughesnet cannot be as dumb as to get rid of the fap free zone?
if that's the case, then this is already an epic fail |
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A Tech...
I have been hearing similiar. While I think some people are going to be disappointed with this, I still see it better than Exede plans. And it appears these plans were designed a iintentionally a little better (but not much) compared to Exede. |
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| reply to ricky_005
Doesn't sound impressive. |
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