Ok I have an XP desktop and a Vista laptop. Both are connected to my linksys router (but it's not that cause I've tried it connected directly to the modem and it still wouldn't let me in). My hughes modem is the dw 7000, next newest model.
AFA how I like hughes? I honestly hate 'em. Their customer service is in India and the people are hard to understand, and I can't count the number of times I've been hung up on just this week with this issue. One guy when he was walking me through different steps and I asked him about one step (all I did was ask what it did,-I mean if you don't' ask you'll never understand and thus never learn-I was perfectly polite in asking too) well when I asked, he smarted off 'oh I see we have a tech support person on the other end of the phone' when i said no, he went on to quiz me about my computer skills, like 'well do you work on computers, do you have stock' and stuff like that. Stuff just to prove a point that he was the tech person and I was the person with the problem. Again I'll say i was polite, I didn't doubt or argue with what he said to do I just asked, so that I could understand it and remember it if the step worked and I encountered the problem int he future. They also have this little thing called FAP-Fair access Policy. What it does is regulate just HOW much you can do on the net, when you go over that limit your back to dial up speeds for 24 hours. That's all fine but if your making your living or taking college classes like I was then it more or less prevents you from doing this. All they can say is what your upload/download limit and wait till the 24 hours is over. Their plans start at 60 a month and the service dealing with the people and slow speeds when you go over isn't worth that. And yeah watching a bunch of youtube vids, online movies, even listening to a bunch of myspace songs will put you over really quick, I was shocked by just how little I did that put me over. Don't get me wrong when it's working fine mine zooms like a top, I've kept service on my net longer than I have on my tv as far as bad weather and the times I've lost it was times you really needed to turn off and unplug stuff cause of lightning and stuff, but when it's not working right as you can see from this post, your kind of resorted to figuring it out for yourself. Like this deal now, I've been told everything from I've gone over my amount (I hadn't cause I checked) to myspace won't accept the proxy number, to I'm just gonna have to live with it. It's just funny that it worked on all the normal settings and all of a sudden quit.
Here's some links on the FAP
http://www.copperhead.cc/fap.htm
And a few more for Hughes:
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/...net-c19070.html (BTW I DID ask about the myspace banning last night and was told it was false)
As much as I hate it, I've been told by those that have wildblue that their FAP is lower and a lot worse-like it takes a month or something to return to normal speeds rather than a day. And satellite is the only option I have here other than dial up, so that's the only reason I'm still a customer with 'em. Just read the links or do a google on hughe.net and you can find lots of info on 'em. my choice though if I had the option to get something else I'd go for it in a heartbeat.
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