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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | We've used the services for several years, and it always was marginal at best. The last year and a half I relied upon it as a backup to my T1 line. When the T1 developed issues, I called in and talked to the account folks at Hughesnet and they told me the fix was to go to Gen5. Scheduled and install, and if it didn't fly, so tried a repair which also didn't work, upload was absolutely pathetic and would not carry the VOIP they talked me into, no one could hear or understand half our conversations. Got all new cabling, tried a couple different radios and nada.
What has your experience been? Maybe there's a fix out there?
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Before my mother died last year, we had her on that ISP there in Tomahawk. It was very marginal at best, and mostly I just ended up tethering to my cell phone rather than struggle with that.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | That would have been cheaper, that's for sure, but believe it or not, where my place is is a dead zone for both at&t and verizon. 1 mile east or west, and boom.
We are now using a new Frontier connection that's pretty good, they got it run out here a couple months ago. In the meantime, it's been absolutely a nightmare getting the system to work and then get it cancelled. I gotta be missing something... |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Heh...I had like 1-2 bars on the cell phone! That one year I spent about 4-5 months up there was a nightmare, in terms of having Internet access. We are one of the most developed nations in the world, yet our Internet connectivity pretty much sucks unless you live near a city.
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Location: MN | Another option that you could look into is Excede. I don't use it, but I have talked to others that have made the switch from Hughes with good success. May be worth looking into. |
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Location: NEW | Exede throttles down bandwidth as you use more.
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