Respected sir/madam,
I am sorry to say but I have Hughesnet in the middle of rural North Carolina. The area of which of live is way out in the boondocks, surrounded entirely by old people who wont concede to petition for cable since they feel that nobody in the area needs it (which is entirely bogus).
When Direcway first came around, it was added as a part of our DirectTV bill, which only added around 30 dollars extra which is one hell of a deal. It was a pain whenever there was bad weather but other than that, it was a really good satellite Internet provider. Then, out of nowhere, Hughes comes in and takes over (dun, dun, dun!).
Configuring from Direcway to Hughesnet was a pain to a nightmare to hell on Earth. Being thrown from one Indian serviceperson to another, it took me almost two weeks to finally get some Internet and thank god snail mail was still around for some bills.