[Zeroday]

HughesNet is Horrible, completely.

My dad went ahead and got it right before we moved to a farm in a remote area. RoadRunner is available a few streets over I think.

Well, all I can say is that it costs him 100$ a month! and that is only for 1mb download speed = 150kb and about 200kb upload speed. We also on top of that have a download cap of 350-500 mb - which is less than enough to get me through the day.

HughesNet customer support is terrible, they have empty promises.
It also has a static ip, which means the IP never changes and I have to use a shared connection.

If I go over the download cap, the speed drops to less then dial-up - which means I cant browse at all.

Even with our 1 mb download speed, our browsing speed is terrible.

I think that we shouldn't be paying $100 for crap, so I have a question.

My parents have Nextel/Sprint for their phone service on their cellphones, and they get pretty good signal strength here, so do you think that when our contract is done for HughesNet we should get a AirCard from Sprint? Do they charge money for how much you download or browse?