HughesNet in Alaska
February 11, 2008 by admin
Normally when you order HughesNet satellite internet, your order is placed in the system one day, and a local installer calls you the next day to setup and configure your satellite dish and equipment. Most people don’t bother to think about the logistics of having thousands and thousands of local installers in every state - sometimes it just doesn’t work. Alaska is one of the states where installers of HughesNet are hard to come by.
When you think of Alaska what comes to mind? Trees. Rivers. Eagles. Nature. Let’s pretend for a minute that you’re a mountain man who lives in Alaska in a small shack with a laptop and decide to order HughesNet because you need broadband internet access. Sorry to inform you but it just won’t happen.
Don’t think people haven’t tried to send installers to Alaska, they have, but there are problems you would never imagine. Some installers have been confronted by a hungry bear. Other times it’s an angry moose. Some need to venture so far into the wilderness that they travel by helicopter, canoe, float plane, and dog sled while also transporting all their equipment.
Thinking about moving to Alaska? I might be a good idea if your trying to get away from civilization and have no need for the internet of computers. But if your like me and need internet access 23 hours out of the day, forget Alaska!
Tyler, don’t Alaska bash, we have great Satellite high speed up here and not everyone lives in “the sticks” fighting bears and moose with spears, Lol. Ok, so it did take our installer 2 weeks and a 4 wheel drive truck to get us up and running, but Hughes is available here and we are happy. BTW, check out the local hip hop scene at:
http://www.youtube.com/v/tS8RZcKQwBA&rel=1
Sincerely, Gretchen
I run the office for HughesNet in Alaska, you are more than welcome to call me at (907)451-0088 or 1(888)Dwn-Load for questions about HugesNet in Alaska. I’ll be more than happy to put all doubts to rest about getting satellite internet up here.
We will be traveling to Alaska this spring/summer and will be taking out Hughesnet with us. Is it possible to use this up there or is it only usable in the lower 48?
I became a certified installer so that I could do my own Hughesnet system out here in the Alaska bush. It is up and running and works great.
We just returned from Alaska. Used our .74 meter dish (on a tripod) pretty much everywhere we had a line of sight. Sat 127 works well and we had a signal stronger than we had here in Arizona.
Modem draws only 64 watts. Even remote users could set up a system with a solar panel (summer).