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Number 18 : JUN 1st, 2011 : Blancheben (NY)

Recommended: No

The first,and very fundamental problem, is that you can't get an answer (let alone a person) when you call them. Definitely not recommended.

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Number 17 : MAR 9th, 2011 : Pam (KY)

Recommended: No

they tell you same old thing over and over. wont work with goverment act. false advertising post to free installation. any thing they do will cost you money.

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Number 16 : NOV 10th, 2010 : Stefan Baumann (CA)

Recommended: No

HughesNet in out-dated and slow. you can't down load anything with out going over there allowed time and then they charge you. you pay top dollar and get nothing. The network is so slow that you can walk you info to your client. they use the excuse that its Satellite but I get great Direct TV form Satellite but I cant even download a youtube video. DONT USE THEM THEY DO NOT DELIVER!

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Number 15 : NOV 1st, 2010 : DOCPILLAGE (KY)

Recommended: No

I was supposed to be the 2nd subscriber to what was then named DIRECTWAY. To say the least, I believe I can speak with more experience than most subscribers, so please pay heed to what I say! First off, in order to save money, the Company makes the customer sort out issues with a people that English is a SECOND language! As they are Indian they naturally speak slightly faster in a higher pitch voice. There has been some improvement in speech as compared to the early days of Directway when I felt happy to understand two words in a single sentence. As the tension rose the speed of voice and pitch esculated until I had to just finally had to hang up. Simply put, I choose to live in the country and if I want to use a computer I have NO REAL CHOICE. I have jokenly told my doctor that a Valium and a glass of wiskey is mandatory in order to prevent a stroke or heart attack resolving the simplist od problems. You have to wonder why I did not give all zeros to the questions. The reason is due to the effort that the employees try to please. They really try hard but when English is the second language the employees have a hopless situation to deal with. I would gladly pay a few pennys more per month to talk to aomeone that could answer my question in just a frction of the time it now takes. Sadly, Hughes would accually save money by simply eliminating the time difference. I recently switched to an HL9000 modem. I was getting more "drop offs" on the other moden as to nearly make it usless! I pity those with the lesser modems. This my own opion but I believe this is a result of overselling. But, as I said it is only an opinion. Now I have a top of the line HP running Windows 7. I am keeping score and I an losing 1out of 10 entries. After arguring with Microsoft, they have told me that my problems stem from my carrier. NOW WHERE DID i PUT THAT DOCTOR'S NUMBER? Pardon my spelling

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Number 14 : SEP 3rd, 2010 : Kathydrummond (VA)

Recommended: No

Since June 2010 signal has been unreliable. The day I had the time and patience to speak with someone, I had a signal so the person on the phone said she couldn't tell me what was wrong. How can they help me if I don't have a signal when I call? If I had a strong signal I wouldn't need to call. Frustrating and POOR VALUE

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Number 13 : MAR 6th, 2010 : Larry Evans (TX)

Recommended: No

8 Year customer. I became a customer of DirecWay, which was the name Hughes used before it sold its DirecTV satellite division, because it was the only alternative to dialup at my residence in November 2002. Other than the failure of the transponder carrying my account on the Hughes PanaMex satellite in early January, 2002, the Hughes residential service was pretty good, with average download speeds in excess of 700 Kbps (I once clocked it at 1.5 Mbps in 2003) up until about late 2005, when the service started to slow down. I daresay that their 1998-launched SatMex 5 is technologically obsolete, and given that this key part of their infrastructure is kind of out of their reach at 22,300 miles up, they've oversold their available bandwidth. Today, I ran their satellite speed test 20 times and averaged right about 250 kbps. Just a few days ago, our phone company started to offer a 6 Mbps DSL line for 42% of Hughes' monthly fee for residential service. That's 24x the speed of Hughes for 42% of the cost. Unless you live so far out in the boonies that you can't avoid using this excruciatingly slow excuse for broadband service, don't go Hughesnet.

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Number 12 : JAN 26th, 2010 : Gene (KY)

Recommended: No

HughesNet Fair Access thresholds are a joke. You basically can't do anything without going over, and then they want you to pay a fee for the speed to be restored for the next 24 hours. It's a scam. My dial up was better. Can't wait until we are past the 24 month agreement to get rid of this service. Customer service is horrible. Can't understand their foreign techs and one called me stupid because I said that their Fair Access policies were not reasonable. My wife was home when they installed the service and they damaged my roof in the installation process.

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Number 11 : JAN 23rd, 2010 : Francois (CA)

Recommended: No

DO NOT SIGN UP FOR HUGHES. I pay for "up to 1500 kbps" and I get about 200-300 and have spent hours and hours with incomprehensible customer non service. Of course they are covered by the "up to" clause. DO NOT sign up with Hughes. You are locked into a contract with poor service. Even if you live in a rural area like me, rather go to the nearest internet cafe than bother with Hughes.

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Number 10 : DEC 2nd, 2009 : Jobetpaw (PA)

Recommended: No

I started this when it was DIRECWAY. I live in a rural area so I had no choice. Phone line are old and no cble or DSL available. I have talked to customer support till I am blue in the face. At one point I was told that there was no guarranty it would be faster than Dialup. Tech support is hard to understand with them sopeaking broken english. The only time the speed ifs even close to advertised is at 5:00 AM. It starts to slow donabout 8:00 AM and only gets worse as the day wears on.

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Number 9 : AUG 30th, 2009 : Sldson (TX)

Recommended: No

Very slow esp. after noon. Email help not. Phone help not. I really think their problems are their system is overloaded so they try to keep you busy doing test. After you do the test they then tell you, you need to do a different test. Very poor service if only they lived up to their adds or even close. Only have a few months left on my contract and will be doing something different.

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