Changing Internet Service Providers

Leaving Hughes Net Wild Blue Internet Services

Since 2003, we have been using Hughes Net Wild Blue Internet Service in our home at $89.00 per month.  We live in a rural area with no direct high speed cable or high speed telephone Internet services.  Wild Blue uses a satellite dish system.  We have never been very satisfied with the Hughes Net Wild Blue Internet Service.  We have had to deal with frequent down time, frequent stoppages, slow relay speeds, and slow download speeds.  We have to plug and unplug our Linksys router two or three times every day.  We could never get Skype or Roku to work properly.  They do not offer their own Internet mail services, which causes confusion in how our outgoing email address looks.  There have been numerous equipment malfunctions.  Wild Blue has replaced the satellite dish on our roof twice, and the communications box twice.  Service response to our complaints was slow.  We have been without Internet service since last Thursday because the Wild Blue communications box was malfunctioning.

On Monday we switched to Red Bluff 'The Sky Beam' Internet Service provider.  Installation for $100.  Monthly service fees of $40.  

Our neighbor reports on excellent service from Sky Beam.  We shall see how we do in the coming months. 

I will need to completely reset all my email accounts.  The Sky Beam mail option does not have the email functionality that I desire.  Please excuse the lapse in my personal email communications during the next couple of weeks.  

At home, I will now be using the Firefox browser, Google Email, Google Blogger, and the Google Apps Cloud.  At school where I work, I use  the CUESD Google Mail and the Firefox browser as everyday business tools, and we sometimes use the CUESD Google Apps Cloud.    

Karen said her Internet speed was much faster on her computer!   She is very pleased!!!  It helps greatly to keep your wife happy.  

Netflix through Roku over our wireless in-house from my Linksys Wireless G Broadband Router seems to work perfectly.  Netflix streams perfectly using The Sky Beam service.  No broken connections and downloading waits every few minutes using Roku to stream Netflix video/sound.