Directway install

Reply 2 - Feb 18 th , at pm. The equipment is NOS, still in the original box. Ebay and Craigslist is awash with these. My goal going this route was to get in as cheap as possible, with no long term commitment.

I originally was going to commit to the Wildblue service because the equipment costs and service plan were cheaper, but given the poor upfront service to a prospect installation set up and then cancelled indefinitely, due to "overwhelming demand" , I chose the low road. If Hughes does balk at comissioning the system, I'll take my whooping and go on. The old saying "Good judgement comes from experience, Experience comes from bad judgement" probably applies here!

Reply 3 - Feb 18 th , at pm. So, assuming the modem is free of any previous account and can be comissioned, has anyone successfully aquired their SAN and PIN without having to have a "professional" installer come bless the setup? Judging from Greg's post above, it would seem that it could be possible to obtain these directly from Hughes. Reply 4 - Feb 19 th , at pm. If you truly have a DW that's never been commissioned, that's an option if HughesNet refuses your request. HughesNet connections are a laugh a minute or a sob in some cases , which helps make the 15 months go by a little quicker.

Reply 5 - Feb 26 th , at am. Alright, I've aquired my SAN and pin. Actually, as soon as the modem came back as clear, the Hughes operator was more than happy to take my credit card info!! I'll be mounting the dish this week, and be ready to point.

While on the phone with Montana Satellite last week, the tech mentioned that the default satellite for used installs is currently AMC 9, but that it changes occasionally. There are two transponder choices, and MHz. I've searched through the forums and can't find anything that mentions how to determine which transponder to use. Reply 6 - Feb 26 th , at am. They change from time to time, but you won't know to which satellite the Hughes commissioning computer will assign you until you you've actually gone through the commisioning process.

What Montana told you about the default satellite may be current tomorrow, it may not. Best you can do without the current knowledge of a certified installer is attempt a satellite based commissioning.

If you're lucky, you're already pointed at the satellite you'll be assigned to. Maybe even the transponder, but the odds of that are low. Reply 7 - Mar 4 th , at pm. Well, I've now made it throught he commissioning process.

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Subscribers should use other types of anti-virus and malicious content blocking protection available commercially, so their computers are fully protected. You must be pointed to the G4R satellite, and the cost is not insignificant though not a bank-breaker , and they promise Kbps throughput downstream for 2 concurrent users. Option 2 is what I just purchased with 1 static IP address.

It will be installed in a day or two. I don't think that NAT is the problem as the transmitter lights on the modems will go out randomly whether NAT is running or not. I don't know why this happens any more than anyone else it would seem. But NAT, for me at least, isn't the problem. I even get messages saying that the usb device has been unplugged! Sometimes thirty of them over a weekend. Well, now I have a through Skycasters. Thought this would solve all my problems. Not quite!

Connection keeps coming and going, yet sigbnal strength is well over minimum. Took the router out of the mix Skycasters tier 2 couldn't solve it. Hughes level 1 and Finally, I am told now 1 month after install and repointing to G4R satellite that the dish was not "peaked" properly and I have no stable signal. Too little "isolation". He came back and did nothing!

Skycasters will be in touch with me on Monday and have someone else come out and re-point and re-peak the dish. In the middle of Brooklyn, NY no less!!!!!

Ahhh, I have had the isolation fail several times. The first version of software would pretty much make numbers up. I could have a 9 and it would say it was OK and then a 50 and it would fail. The latest version fixed the random numbers but iso still fails way too often. My installer, get this I did for 11 months until the sub quit and now the seller says "well you are way out of warranty and I haven't heard you were having any problems, so my rate to fix this will be But he wasn't so I have to deal with DW directly.

It just stinks all the way around. I long for DSL as well. But on the bright side, you may have just given me my answer!! If it works I'll have a win2k server running NAT on a satellite. I'll probably be the first! I had 2 linksys port hubs and a non-managed 24 port switch.

I run DHCP on another server, and eventually disable the firewall. When I started having problems, I looked to linksys. They basically said "duh". The topoligy of my network has been simplified to a single hub and now, instead of the hub, I am using the switch. There is no cascading at all. Ethernet should be faster than USB. Less software should be better than more software.

Does anyone have two tin cans and a string? I have the cans but the string is no longer supported with my version of can. Please let me know what you had to say to DW to get them to admit there was a iso error. I would like to shave hours off the tech support queue. The problem went from Tech sepport at Skycasters to tier 2. It was there for about a week. No real answers, but we tried a bunch of stuff. Finally went to tech at Hughes.