Hughesnet Reviews, Complaints and Compliments

netcracker says: (4 weeks ago)

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hey, sclgeographer, I get the feeling that sometimes they just knock us down with time charges because they're having problems.

Last night they say I downloaded something that was nearly 300 MEGs! It was at 7 PM when I was watching TV. I wondered if some humongous Windows update happened at that hour, or McAfee, nope, nothing. And there's no way of finding out if they're accurate with this information, because clearly they aren't in this case.

sclgeographer says: (1 month ago)

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i subscribe to hughes.net i live in the country and there is no other access....except for other providers like hughes.net. i upgraded recently hoping that i would be better service. it is pitiful. a lot of the time i have 5.5 - 11. i am NOT happy about this. i pay these folks $79 a month for lousy service.

whippedbyHN says: (2 months ago)

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I'm sitting here right now stuck with slower than dialup speed because Windows had a service pack update along with an update for Microsoft office and all of it added up to 310MB and that booted me over the "Fair Access Policy" line and I'll be in this punishment phase for 24 hour.

All I can say is listen carefully the ads and notice they do not make promises like cable of being able to download movies and TV shows on line. Not a prayer or that. It charges a much higher fee than DSL and cable for a lot less bandwidth. Stick with dialup. It's almost as fast as Hughesnet, a lot cheaper and it won't punish you for downloading.

Feedup says: (2 months ago)

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We have been Hughes Net customers for over 2 years, and I have to agree with 99.9% of the other post that Hughes was/is a very pathetic corporation, and has little to no customer care abilities. Today I called them regarding a web mail issue that is obviously an issue at their end, and even the so called supervisor tried to change settings on my end to resolve an issue. Over the past 2+ years, Hughes has been changing and modifying their “product”, and that seems to be where the issues arise. I have noticed that their spam filter often ignores the “safe sender” tag, and labels the email as spam anyway, requiring you to go to their servers to manually check and “clean” out the spam folder of good emails. Well, today I attempted to clean out the spam folder so I could retrieve the good emails, and their new “home page” apparently has a broken link as after clicking on the link, all I got was the “Done but with errors on page” notice in the bottom left corner of IE. When I called, their “tech” wanted to change my cookie settings from “prompt” to “Allow” which effects security of the machine by allowing any cookie (malicious or not) to be put on your machine… I refused to change that setting as Hughes was already tagged as “Allow” so that was not the issue. After dealing with the “tech” who only wanted to modify my machine, I asked for a supervisor… The supervisor took the medaling of my machine even farther… He wanted me to reboot in “Safe mode” in order to make changes. Now I am no Bill Gates, but even I know a broken link is not going to be fixed by changing anything on my machine. This is the second time (minimum) that Hughes has (In my opinion) played a shell game to hide their errors. If I had it all to do over again, I would avoid Hughes like the plague. FYI, I have also had usage issues with Hughes … Interesting since it started happening when we hardly used the net, so we set a trap… We shut down all but one machine, and we put it to sleep… Busted… It claimed we have exceeded the 200 megs a day limit so I opened the files folder and did a search on “updated files” by date … The computer showed NO updates within the time we supposedly surpassed the limits. We are in a very rural area and no one is close enough to us to access the wireless router. (plus it is password protected, and locked to only “see” our machines. I have over 2 years of examples folks, so the long story short.. Stay away from Hughes… In my opinion they should be the target of a class action law suit.

asian says: (2 months ago)

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i do understand that you guys are having problems regarding the service and their tech supports, i admit that i work for hughesnet as a representative from the billing dept/customer service, but comparing satellite ISP to DSL/cable it is actually way too far because of the propagation delay/latency of the satellite system, it is better to know the difference between the systems first before we judge and complain. .

wacohughesnet says: (4 months ago)

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Throughput is considerably less than the technical speed. I am paying for about 1700 down and 200 or so up. When you do a speed test, it just sits there for several seconds. Then, it performs at the specified rate, but, again, that's not at all what you experience. The Fair Access Policy is a surprise to most, but once you know about it, it would be livable IF there was some sort of meter to tell you how close you're coming to the ceiling. It obviously knows. Why it doesn't inform you has to be chalked up to their desire to drop you to dial-up speeds so they leverage their end. I too am rural and stuck. If *any* other broadband was available, they would have to be as horrible for me not to switch.

maryooff says: (4 months ago)

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DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. LIE AFTER LIE.. CHARGED MY CREDIT CARD WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE $200.00. HADNT HAD THE SERVICE FOR A DAY.

julies029 says: (9 months ago)

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What a joke! I too, as 1000's of others was scammed by HughesNet. No mention of fair access policy. My son likes to watch videos on youtube and after about 1 hour of that you have used up your "quota" of high speed. Now I am paying $70 a month for dial up speed. If this complaint saves 1 person the agony it was worth it. I too am faced with early termination fees. Might as well deal with it, get through the rest of the "contract" which I have never seen and mark it up as a lesson learned.