Availability.
Clear, blue skies, calm weather. And HughesNet will still go out. It is intermittent, but it's hard to understand why there'll be an interruption in service on clear days with no bad weather. And it is irritating, especially if you're in the middle of something. Maybe a leaf blew by the dish, or the wind kicked up a bit, or who knows maybe the dog down the street barked (yes, I'm being facetious), and the service goes out and who knows why.
Never mind that it's a given that it WILL go out when there is bad weather (ie: thunder, lightning, storms, rain, heavy winds). And it will stay out until the weather clears up.
But then again, that's HughesNet for you. And to be fair, probably satellite internet in general.
Page loading times.
As I said before, since the name changed to Hughesnet, overall the daily service for $60/mth has gotten slower, around the time traffic limits / FAP were put into effect. The time required to load a simple, plain web page is taking longer than it used to; on par with dialup times (same dish & same modem).
This is HughesNet-specific since they have actively taken to "choking" the basic service in an effort to drive people to upgrade to a more expensive package.
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