Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Goodbye HughesNet

Finally able to get a local line of sight WISP (wireless internet service provider) and get rid of HughesNet. When we first moved here they weren't taking new customers, not enough bandwidth and they didn't want to lower the quality of service to their existing customers. Saw the neighbor dismantling his Hughes dish the other day and found out we had local service out here. What a fuggin relief.

I hate big companies like Hughes, Dish, Direct, Comcast etc. Every survey done shows customer satisfaction lower than low.

We are getting a way better deal too. Service is so good I can now listen to the youtube videos folks put up, or a new video, and not have to play a game of solitaire while waiting for the video to load. And there's no limit on how many hours we can stream like there was with Hughes.

Best of all, less than 1/2 the cost for twice the service.....................and my money is staying and helping local folks.

Geno

The thing to do was to be a poor white trashy type Geno.

Obama personally paid for fiber optic right to my door.

Free!

Sheeet,

Not here bro. Lot's of poor white folks, brown folks, and even a few black folks here like my neighbor who let me know service was available . Wish there were a program like the Rural Electrification Authority. We have service with an old electric co-op, cheapest rates in Cali and the best service anywhere. Sure would be smart out here in the boonies to do the same for other services like cell phones, internet, and even a medical co-op (think like a credit union only for medical) would be an improvement than dealing with companies that don't want to spend money out here because there's a whopping 2.3 people per square mile.

Maybe we need to get us a MT type politician to represent us.

Geno

2.3?

Thats crowded!

1.5 here.

You sure there’s that many there?

1.6 on St. Patrick's Day! when every miner in Nevada goes home to Butte!

I've had HughesNet for the past 18 months and hate it. Been looking for an alternative. Fiber Optic is all around me, even to places more back in the boonies that I am, but I don't have it. Found out that AT&T has a fixed wireless internet that has became available to me, or at least they say it is. 215 GB's a month for $40, 10 times my current allowance at half the price. I have them scheduled to come this Thursday to check and see if the signal is strong enough. I'll have to buy out my remaining months with Hughes, but what I'll save will more than make up for that.

I'd love to toss my DishNet and Verizon hotspot.

They are my only options here as of this late date of epic technology advancement...

After that, get yourself a 4K fire stick and download the apps you want using the new Downloader app from Troypoint. At that speed (215 gb), you won't have any problems with buffering. The new 4K fire stick has more room on it than the older one I'm running, and you're at 3 times my speed (75 gb). So, with that configuration, you'll be able to watch your shows and movies at 1080p or better and the larger streams (1.0 gb or more) with no problem.

Don't bother signing up for the any of the expensive entertainment packages. You'll have all you can watch right there for way less than $100 a month.

Basically, you're golden.

Is that $40 a month AT&Ts discounted 'new customer' promotional price deal and will increase to their standard price after a given time period?

The reason I ask is it's not at all like AT&T to permanently lock-in service prices that low. Typically it just last for the first year of service and to new customers only.

That price was bundled with my cell phones. I've not signed the contract yet, and will find out about the price after the first year. Actually, AT&T has several different wireless internet plan. Another one was $50 a month for 50GB, different kind of hookup.

I'm just searching for something that will get rid of Hughes. Their TV ads are so misleading. I had DishNet, which was ok, but they are wanting to get rid of their internet business, and switched me over to Hughes.........supposedly an upgrade, with faster speeds and more data, which wasn't just a lie, but a damn lie.

I believe that's 215GB of data per month for $40, not download speed.

I have a bill coming from Dish for this summer but I fired them and went with Direct a year ago las spring, 2018. I hope they can't force me to pay. Be Well, RZ.

That's the way they advertise it. But, I actually get around 200 gb (190) from my 75 gb contract now that they've fixed the problems in my neighborhood with the fiber optic cable.

The speed isn't where you get the problem. It's the hole it's getting sucked through. My older fire stick doesn't have enough room left on it after all the apps to handle buffering of the larger streams. I need to get a 4K fire stick.

My 75gb contract with Comcast is $59.99/mo because I'm a "senior".

One of the nice girlie reps found that deal for me, and so far it has stuck for a couple years now.

Comcast has the monopoly in Savannah. What a sorry ass outfit!

A while back a long time AT&T service man told me that their fiber optic advertising was mostly smoke and mirrors hype and misleading at best. He said that fiber optics aren't available in many markets, especially smaller markets and rural areas and won't be for a long time, if ever. Where their fiber optics is available will in many areas just be to main distribution hubs, but from there on it still will be over existing phone transmission lines.

AT&T fibre optics coverage map

they sucked 20 years ago

Some things never change

The cable company said for $80,000 they would run 6 poles and hook us up and 5 other of my in-laws' homes. And the guy sort of chuckled saying it.

I told them when we eventually develop the back 200 acres of this place into 3-5 acre lots, they won't be the provider for any data, voice, etc. I sort of chuckled myself telling him back.

In certain areas, the local rural electric co-ops have run internet service through their lines. I've been told it's pretty high speed stuff too. I asked the manager of our local co-op if they had considered doing it, and he said it costs too much for them to do it. Now, this fellow is kin to me, rather close too, so I said to him........"all those overseas trips that you and your wife take to business meetings cost a lot too." He has spoken to me since then only when it was absolutely necessary, and it has not bothered me in the least.