BajaNomad

Hughesnet Gen4

astrobaja - 2-8-2014 at 02:36 PM

Hi all,

We have had Starband sat internet for about 6 years now. We have their $99 plan which gives a 5 Gb 7 day rolling average for bandwidth and 1.5Mbps download (although the reality is more like .5.8). I noticed that the Hughesnet Gen 4 sat service is a lot faster and you get 40 Gb per month. Does the footprint extent to Baja Norte? Anybody here have this system? For $129 a month thats a pretty good service!

cheers

Mike

astrobaja - 2-8-2014 at 06:51 PM

just got my question answered by a tech guy. The footprint does not extend down more than 100 miles SOB so its out for us, but this is a great alternative for those down to about Ensenada!

http://www.hughesnet.com/index.cfm?page=Plans-Pricing

absinvestor - 2-9-2014 at 10:52 AM

Unless it recently changed HughesNet will not allow service in Mexico. We had it at the palapa south of Mulege because we listed a US address and had a tech set up the satellite. We purchased the equipment from Hughes, had it shipped to a US address etc. It worked fine but if we ever had a problem we had to tell them that we had the system set up in a remote area of Ca.

Bob and Susan - 2-9-2014 at 10:59 AM

they really don't care anymore...just no on-site service

lots of rv'ers "need" internet

they bill on-line so as long as you pay...you get slow internet
it's better than nothing

if you are on the edge of the service area your internet could go in-n-out

Russ - 2-9-2014 at 11:48 AM

Now, if Slim would just update the 3/4G service there would be no reason to purchase a US service. Seems like a simple fix?????