HughesNet Sucks

Why even bother with this satellite internet service? It's been a long and arduous journey with an ISP that doesn't care a whit about their customers. This is my story of a service that at best can described as average. In fact, it's best described as dialup-over-the-satellite. Certainly not high-speed internet service.

Saturday, February 2, 2008

F R E E D O M

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Last week, I finally told HughesNet that I didn't need them anymore. NO. MORE. SATELLITE. INTERNET. I was only a month behind my goa...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Oregon gets props for this

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Oregon Challenges RIAA's Tactics in Music Piracy Claim The state attorney general is resisting the music labels' demand for consumer...

The Top 10 Reasons to avoid Satellite Internet - Number 9

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No Music streaming, downloading movies, VOIP, or other apps It's hard to be a 21st-century internet user when the ISP-mindset is 19th-ce...

The Top 10 Reasons to avoid Satellite Internet - Number 10

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Weather Wanna know what I was doing the week before Christmas after the six inches of snow and ice? In 20-degree weather, I was putting the...

The Myth Of The Bandwidth Crunch Just Won't Die

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Techdirt comes through again! The Myth Of The Bandwidth Crunch Just Won't Die rom the this-again? dept A few months back we noticed a tr...
Monday, December 3, 2007

They did it again

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A couple of weeks ago, HughesNet degraded their service yet again . Um, their already dialup-over-the-satellite slow connection has gotten ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Um, how's that "capitalism" stuff go again?

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From the Techdirt files . . . . . Service Providers Can't Be Honest With Themselves, So How Can They Be Honest With You? from the self-...

Hushmail is gonna be history

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From the Techdirt files...... Hushmail Turns Out To Not Be Quite So Hush Hush from the privacy-is-an-illusion dept Many people are familiar ...

This week in fuckwit history . . . .

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HughesNet degraded their service yet again. Now your internets are even s-l-o-w-e-r . Now the average is about 1-1/2 minutes to load a pag...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

HughesNet & Sandvine (traffic shaping)

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Sandvine lists DirecTV as a customer on the website. One can reasonably conclude that HughesNet also uses Sandvine to enforce its FAP (...
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