Hughes Net?

[MrsAggie]

Please share your experiences.

I have spent HOURS on hold with Comcast for the past week and still don't have Internet service. My options are limited so I said eff it and called Hughes Net (which was recommended by DirecTV). It's a 24 month contract but we have 30 days to cancel if we hate it.

It's satellite Internet. Any thoughts or experiences?

[Deleted]

Just make sure you don't go over your bandwidth each month. My parents did when my brother was home and it screwed them

[discogranny]

I was coming in to say the same as skipping. My ILs live in BFE and can get satellite or dial-up only. They love the speed of Hughes compared to dial up but when my BIL came home from college they went way over their allotted bandwidth and got a large fee.

We have cable Internet at our house and I would say that the ILs Hughes Net is about 2/3 as fast. So if you live in a very rural area, you might find the same.

[MrsAggie]

It's not a rural area. It's in this weird patch of HOUSTON that, for some unknown reason, it's serviced by suddenlink or at&t uverse. I'm so over Comcast and am running out of options. I practically begged suddenlink to somehow service our area lol.

[Mrs.Rad888]

DH and I are rural, and our only choices were dial-up or satellite. We got the satellite, but it's so slow and frustrating. Luckily, our phone company started offering DSL, so that what we have now, and it's so much better.

[emjacobs]

Can you get an Internet card through a cell service provider? The speed and reliability will be better so long as there is cell coverage.

My parents had Hughes net and hated it they never had good service and horrible customer service to boot.

[lola]

My sister had it when she lived in a very rural area and had nothing but problems with it. And, poor customer service to top it all off.