Hughesnet Trouble

[nevadasmith]

Hi,
I live in the Sierra mountains where we have had Netzero which was slow but ok and now have moved to Hughesnet. We would have stayed with Internet over the land line, but my wife is a Real estate agent and we could not open up a lot of sites with the slow dial up service. We have had Hughesnet for about a week and it was instantly slow. Signal strength is low or says very poor. The dish is 150 ft away from the house and is set up on a wireless system. We have a Belkin wireless hooked up to the house computer. When it was installed the guy took a reading with three bars. We did not have the wireless connection for the home so he never saw what the computer would get. He left, and my wife went to staples and got the wireless hookup and now the computer says 1 bar. The netzero was faster than this. I was wondering if the 150 ft is too far to run cable from the dish to the home. There are trees in the way from where the dish and the router are mounted which is at the garage , I was thinking this was disrupting the wireless connection also . Any suggestions?

[Satmancrothers]

The cable length is longish but should probably be OK. My 1st guess would be the trees. A lot of times a person will get installed when there is less foilage, say winter and then the leaves come in, you get interference.

You may have some other issue but I'd eliminate the trees as problem before going to the next step. If it is your cable is theproblem then you might have to hook up a signal amplifier (which aren't expensive).

[HughesSme]

Hello Nevadasmith,

I have also taken Satellite Internet connection from Hughes in India(hughes.in). It is working perfectly here at my place. I am living in rural Himachal Pradesh in India where mountains are so high that they do not allow signals to come, but services provided by Hughes have never been affected by anything.

If you are still facing any problem then you should contact any person there and they will solve your problem as soon as possible.