Hughes review: downloading and surfing problems 30

Performance sucks.

If you exceed their transfer limit, they cut your bandwidth way back without sending any notification that it's happened. Then they don't turn it back on, regardless of your low usage. According to tech support, you have to "turn off your computer for 24 hours to reset your bandwidth". That's outrageous.

This is exactly what we are currently going through! I was told that I would have to wait for 24 hours and then it will reset our bandwidth. I explained to him that this is a business and "waiting" for 24 hours to conduct business is not an option. When I asked what other options we have, he told me that I could download as much as I want from 3am to 6am, est. I laughed and said "you actually tell people that's an option?" And yes, I could barely understand him and had to keep telling him to speak slowly because I couldn't understand a word he was saying. This is a ridiculous way to do business - I wish I would have been here when they decided to choose these jokers!

You can sign a F.A.P. PETITION by going to www.petitiononline.com/dpcfap/petition.html and typing your name and filling in the blanks. If we don't fight back there will be nothing done about it.

After downloading 10 songs my service dropped down below dialup download speeds. For as much as this service charges a month this is unacceptable.

I have had the same problems with this company and I am looking for legal ways out. You are correct about the slower-than-dial-up. This is the worst service that I have ever had the misfortune of getting into. I am trying to get out of the contract, however than seems to be a pointless fight. I am looking for the Government to step in and help. I will go to The Consumer Protection Agency about Hughes Net and their lack of service paid for assistance.

It is almost worth the effort to pay the fee than pay nearly $1200.00 for a year for two years.

Has anyone had any success with a legal way out without paying the $800.00? If so let us know. I will let all know what I find out.

Something has to be done about this poor service and iron- clad early out fee as well as putting up with foreigners we cannot understand.

Hughes has always been very consistent with the services they offer, we have to understand that is FAP was removed, internet will be worst! This company shields us from people who eats a lot of internet bandwidth! C'mon! Lets face it, stop wining and enjoy the service! I do!

The FAP is the biggest piece of crap ever. Hughes net is so slow after you overload it. It is true that you have to wait a full 24 hours before doing anything else. I like to watch anime, and once I watch about 1 hour worth, it overloads. They have a site where you can check your ussage as to how many mb of data you have downloaded, but for me, the site takes about 2 hours to get the previous hour up. It could be 5 pm, and I still wouldnt know how much I downloaded at 3! There isn't a way to bypass it that I have found. Good luck to everyone else.

Hughesnet service sucks! NOT worth paying that much for a snail moving internet...

whats the link of the site to check the usage please?

hughesnet's FAP is bullcrap. Yes i signed the petition.

It just took me 4min 37seconds to download a 3.70mb file... this is stupid! Just signed the petition! btw internet has not been used today...

Im having the same problems as you guys and can explane how Hughes is getting away with this limit on internet banwith. The company guarantees unlimited internet access but they do not guarantee unlimited high speed internet. As for a legal way out the petition is all i can think of.

I HATE HUGHES NET. Every other internet provider doesnt have the retarted FAP and they go faster than hughes. I want to go to hughes net and hit the ### whos great idea it was to make the fair access policy. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO WATCH AS MANY NARUTO EPISODES AS I WANT ONLINE! I have written Hughes Net in my Death Note. and they didnt die. Of coarse b/c its just a joke. But if i had a real Death Note they would be on the first line. I HATE HUGHES NET.

If they would just give an average monthly download threshold taking what they allow per 24 hour period and mulitplying it by 30, and then apply the FAP if it that was exceeded it would help a lot.

The other thing is that I don't see how they can get away without letting you know that you are exceeding your download threshold since you can't find out about it until at least 2hours after it's too late.

It was also a lot better when they didn't have the FAP on for 24 hours but replenished the speed in conformity to your service plan as opposed to during any 24 hour period not knowing when you might go over by a few megabytes and be shut down.
Hughes is for sure a horrible, lousy service and they should listen to their customers. As other options become available, and they are getting close to where I live, Hughes will be out any customers that have a way out.

First, I really have a great distaste for the Customer Support people of the great state of India. They start off by giving me a false American name and then proceed to take my time and lie to me over the phone regarding every excuse they can give about why their service is so slow. Lying to your Customer base off the get is a bad business practice for anyone... I was not subject to FAP, but aparrently if you reach a unspecified download limit during the month for your plan, you will be subject to a SECRET FAIR ACCESS POLICY (Secret FAP). They will not tell you that it exist or even own up to the fact it is happening. What you will be told is that you are experiencing "peak hour" bandwidth issues because too many Customers are using their bandwidth at the same time. So if you are getting 60 kbps download speeds... tough luck for you.

The unfortunate part of this is that HughesNet India Customer Support enjoys lying to you, their Customer. You are an American, they are Indian. They have been employed by the Company that deduct funds straight out of your bank account in Oregon and given complete permission to make up whatever stories they want. At one point I was even told that the bandwidth issues would clear up as soon as they launched more satellites up in the sky to handle the large Cusomer base that they could not support with their existing equipment. AMAZING STORIES!

HughesNet has yet to figure out that their Indian friends will drive their Company into the ground. Truley Mr. Rajid or Mr. BinLadin is no where interested in actually helping fix issues, but rather answer calls and play with you like the American dog you are. Its the 3rd world finally getting a shot to face off with an Amewrican consumer and stick it to the man and my friend if you are an American Customer, you are the man!

I would definately advise any one who is paying for this kind of crap to simply stop and rather send your money to a company who would like to help the struggling American economy and pay American workers a fair wage who were actually interested in providing quality help to American Customers...

This company is a horrible rip-off!
I pay for speeds of 800/down and 100/up, but what I actually receive is about 250/down and 50/up!
You ought to try testing your own speeds (customercare.myhughesnet.com/tools/speed test).
I made a call to their customer service about slow speeds I've been experiencing and they tell me that I pay for services UP TO (jkey words here) 800/down and 100/up - which is extremely rare that I actually receive this much - because the network is busy. ALL DAY, EVERY DAY THE NETWORK IS BUSY! ABSURD!
Not to mention you can't understand a damn thing their customer service reps are saying (heavy accent).
I'm finding a new provider TODAY. I think we should organize a class action lawsuit!
Samples of my tested speeds:
May 8th, 11:26PM - 249/25 kbps
May 8th, 11:22PM - 388/24 kbps
May 8th, 11:20PM - 368/37 kbps
May 8th, 01:06PM - 655/24 kbps
May 8th, 01:04PM - 362/28 kbps
May 8th, 01:02PM - 442/36 kbps
May 7th, 08:19PM - 172/19 kbps
May 7th, 08:13PM - 194/11 kbps
May 7th, 08:05PM - 144/26 kbps
May 7th, 08:01PM - 171/30 kbps
May 7th, 07:56PM - 55/15 kbps
May 7th, 01:04PM - 846/152 kbps
May 7th, 01:01PM - 713/53 kbps
May 7th, 12:44PM - 811/35 kbps
May 7th, 12:41PM - 498/31 kbps
May 6th, 11:20PM - 224/33 kbps
May 6th, 06:48PM - 319/10 kbps
May 6th, 06:45PM - 263/10 kbps

I hope the middle eastern ppl that work for hughes net burn in hell and take their ### service with them. :] nuff said

I see I am not the only one that is upset with hughesnet service. I have experienced the FAP for the last 2 weeks I thought if I would upgrade to Pro this would take care of the problem, but it was just a waste of money. For some reason I get downloads when I am not even home. I have downloaded a program to monitor my downloads but I am not smart enough to use it. I sure am pissed off with the service, I to will sign the petition...two-dogs

I use Hughes net only as a backup when I go over my FAP with Wild Blue. Even at this, Hughes Net sucks. I have gone without using Hughes at all for two weeks at a time then when I switch over to it I still have lots of problems with loading pages. It's very common to have to try loading a page ten times before it will finally load. The customer service guys in India are worthless. They don't know their a%# from a hole in the ground!

I just installed hughes net Monday and I have been on the phone with customer service since tues. Customer service is the wrong term to use more like disservice you cant understand a word these people say and they are not helpful at all. I downloaded about 10 songs monday night and the next day i called them because service was SLOW thats when they threw in this FAP crap. Funny I never heard that word mentioned before as the sales guy was taking my order and running my credit card to collect their installation fee! Hughes net is crap i have had dial up that works faster than this and cost is a lot lower. Since I havent had it not even a week Im going to try and cancel this s@#& and tell them to get their big a#$ satellite and shove it you know where!

I have has hughes net for several months now. I thought as long as I could see the southern sky hughes net would provide me witht he fastest service. Upon my initial phone call and establishing the service. I was not advised of the follwoing.

1. ACH auto debit from my bank each month. (ok I can deal with this)
2. I was told that I could purchase the equipment up front and receive and $100.00 mail in rebate. I didnt have the money upfront, so a promotion was offerred I could still own the reciever, and the purchase proice would be added onto my monthly service for 5 months, until paid. that would 299.98-100.00=199.98/5-39.99 additional for 5 months. When I called and noticed the same billings occured each month I was then told they didnt know what I was talking about and there very sorry.
3. Threshold limit (downloads excede limit) After the sub contracted instaler left with 72 hours I had problems, it seemed to get slower and slower and the days went by. Until it took 45 min to an hour to actually log into the internet. I would restart my computer, clean the C: drive, defragement and nothing worked because it as there service. There were days when I could not log on at all. When calling I would get the tutorial advising me on bad weather conditions and techical issues they were having ang the issue would be resolved in 24 hours to be 72 hours if not more. When I looked outside the weather would fine.
The customer service rep, s would then advise me to upgrade. Are they serious, 1st I was never told about the threshold limit now if I upgrade I will get a larger threshold limit and when that excede then what.
Prior to my moving I have verzion DSL for 5 years and never had this problem, I was also netwroked with 2 computers in my home and 1 lap top. I am willing to jump on the class action lawsuit package like yesterday.

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I have hughesnet, I agree about getting a lawyer and get them for false advertizing. I have an iphone and when i tried and update my software which is 4.1 mebz my internet slowed to a craw and then I get a message that the server timed out. I call some tech support person (I quess you call them tat HA!HA!). They told me I had exceeded fac. They told me I needed a download manager and time my dowloads after 1pm central time. I said do you know anything about an iphone you can only udate using itunes, they had no explaination except to stay up untill 1pm. This is obserd!

The service is bad and seems to be getting worse! I can't understand one word the hindu tech reps say. The system is running too slow to sign on to a petition. If anyone starts a class action lawsuit, please be sure to include me. We will have to do it by USPS and phone as I can't get my Email to come up.

I have been helping my friend with her computer, and she has hughes net, well it got to the point it was taking so long to do the updates, I packed up her computer took it home, hooked it up to my att dsl internet, and the computer really rock n rolled, so I did all the updates took it back, hooked it back up to her hughes net. HUGE difference between hughes net, and ATT DSL in speed HUGHES NET IS VERY VERY VERY SLOW compared to ATT dsl. All the time outs on hughes net is the real problem, and bad weather makes it really bad. The only reason to buy it would be there is no other choice. I personally think dial up would be a better dollar spent. The bottom line is its slow, its very EXPENSIVE, it costs a lot to break the contract, and it unreliable. Before you take the leap I suggest you find someone you know that has it, just so you can see how bad it is with your own two eyes!

We FINALLY have DSL available in our area. After the horrible experience with Hughes/Direcway over the last 8 or so years, it's VERY good news!

The FAP crap they started was the icing on the cake! NEVER had a problem with it up until December 2009. I called and wanted to know what I was being charged for. They said they couldn't tell me the sites being downloaded, just the times and amounts. Bullcrap! I told them I needed to know so I could determine if someone was leeching off my connection somehow or if there was a mistake somewhere. Still no good. I've asked for supervisors, and gotten someone I suspect is probably just sitting next to the original person who answered the phone.

After the most recent round of phones calls on a daily basis, they told me they'd upgrade me to Professional to try, for free for a month. Low and behold, they charged me. Then said they were having to charge me a month in advance! WTF it that all about! So, as soon as the DSL gets set up, hopefully this coming week, I'm telling Hughes what they can do with their system. And they'd BETTER not try to stick me with any fees.

Count me in as one very, very dissatisfied victim---er, customer.

I've had Hughes junk for 7+ years and i've had nothing but problems! Like most of you i've never had any issues as far as this FAP crap til last year and now ontop of paying for the premium monthly service they want another $10 bucks for a motherf@$king coin to reset my download limit, are you KIDDING ME? My only problem is my driveway is exactly a mile from the road to the front of my house with 2 bridges inbetween and none of the companies will go over both with there services lines and stuff so I can't have dsl or cable internet service. The FALSE advertised 10x faster than dail-up is the biggest bunch of crap i've heard since the last election. I also can't stand calling in and being so mad about the service and problems that I then have to deal with a person whos english is terrible and they try to get an attitude like I a little kid lieing to his mommy! I could go on for days with stories from the last 7 years of this nightmare but most of you have or still live it. Someday karma will return the favor to this poor excuse for a company and shut the

Thank you to all the people that blogged their complaints! I was about to sign-up with "Hugesnet" now thanks to you all. I'll stay away from this scamers!
PS Besides I absolutely hate having to deal with customer support personel that do not speak English and they think they do!

I am having the same problems with my internet service from hughes... this s--t sucks. is there a way that i can get my money back or at least make them honor there word? has anyone figured that out yet? If anyone does then let the rest of us know.

I am upset with hugh net I brought my set up 5 months ago I call customer service for 6day s now each and ever one told me a different thing .I went 2days ago brought a new router well 2 days later I was told it was my modem and they mail me another one with me paying 995 shipping . I ask for some one to be sent out to take care of this problem and was told again it would cost me money .I like I told tell them if that the way they take care of their customer I don't know how they stay in business . I was told that how they took care of their customer I said shame on you all . As. Soon as I find another service I be gone fringing net .If so.some ask me about them all I can say is run from them you not get what you pay for

I hate hugh net they don't take care of there customers and they lye about every thing.

I am very, very, very dissatisfied with Hughes Net. The whole exceed download limit was never discussed with me when I signed up. I pay 60.00 a month taken directly from my checking account, for basically the worst internet I have ever had, and most costly. Hooked up my wireless router so could use my laptop. Then is was like pulling teeth to even get a webpage. Found out on the website that my Mbytes were exhausted, which I had no clue that would happen. When my contract is up, I will never go through this company again. It is a big rip off, and way too expensive for no better service than a person receives.