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Bye Bye Hughes net.

Last week I canceled Hughes net due to issues with my system and there incompetent technical support including level 2 support.

No longer will I have to deal with them assholes that cannot talk nor understand common English.

I went back to Dial-up after being with them for 2.5 years, dial up is going to be a little slower, but its cheaper and more reliable then camel internet.

The story is long and I will make it short as to my reasons....

My modem would drag its ass, it had issues with TCP acceleration, kept going offline and would not come back on, the idiots messed with it for a bit, ran test after test after test, I got tired of the tests, I got tired of the same damn calls with different support numbers, I got tired of it all.

Then they started messing me around, they did not know what was wrong and told me it should be ok now, all they did was delete the error logs, yeah that will fix it.

They used ranging time and time again, for what, just to find my modem still did the same thing, I am done.

I hope all you Hughes net peeps get more out of it then I did, I bought all my junk, and that is all it is, JUNK, $500 for the system, $59.99 a month for the service for 2.5 years = $2299.70 and a serious headache and a big ass paper weight.

WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY.

Thats true Aggr3, it was like $10 more a month for me.

So try EVDO sparky. It might help you out. 

And if you catch a start up deal, no equipment charges. Same goes for you Aggr3.   

I wouldn't go back.

Oh, you have it made then, for peace and quiet. 

One thing I love about bad service and availability. 

Few neighbors. 

Its my old Buddy Aggr3....

Long time no speak, type or what ever! Hows things with you these days?

Sadly Wildblue is not any better. I have come to the conclusion that satellite internet in general sucks balls!!! Basically with Wildblue you get a more consistent download, but then they stick it to you on the latency!!!

It doesn't matter what time or what day of the week it is your pings will never look any better than that.

Pinging yahoo.com [216.109.112.135] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1188ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1441ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1422ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1329ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1250ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1197ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1539ms TTL=49
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1148ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1267ms TTL=48
Reply from 216.109.112.135: bytes=32 time=1470ms TTL=49

Ping statistics for 216.109.112.135:
    Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1148ms, Maximum = 1539ms, Average = 1325ms

yeah every time i call they say it's avial. but..... after i order a few days later...order has been canceled  so i call them there like oh your a couple of feet to far.  so thats about when i say is there anything you can do so it will be avial or when will it be avial ? they say they dont know i dont know if thats true or not but i do know they dont give a Sh*t 

yeah i hope you can get it. i bet you its like night and day compared to hughesnet. i dont know about the cables.

 

Some great news!

I got my install kit, all set up and ready to go, the turn on date was the 25th of September, NO GO!

Called tech support and spoke to a foreigner and they said there was an issue with my account? then I got another turn on date of the 1st of October, the 26th of September Verizon e-mailed me and told me I can't get it!

Verizon are a bunch of Mother*****rs, diligently doing nothing but upgrading services for people where the money is, in the big towns and leaving people like you and me to fester!

I asked them why I should pay the same as people in town and have less services and upgrades, I got no answer to that one.

Anyway, I am trying a Wireless card from my cell phone provider and it is not much faster then a dial up modem, and for $60 a month, it is going back under its 14 day return policy.

Thought I would let you all know the outcome of this and to tell you Verizon suck.

 

I think I can finally get rid of the sucky Hughesnet service myself. I just got my EVDO card today from Alltel and I have 20 days to try it out. If my speed stays consistent with this speedtest, I can live with it. And no FAP...Hot damn!!!!!

Not sure what rev means. I am having trouble playing online though?

it doesn't have anything on it about that. It's a Franklin Wireless CDU550, Dual Mode (800/1900 MHz CDMA)

Tweaked would maybe reach that a few times during the day. But you should definately be able to go twice that fast anyway.

Now grandpa has hit close a few times. And he has been tweaking.