New member, but year-long lurker here and I'm needing quick advice..
I just decided to upgrade on the suggestion of both Hughes and my repairman, but after reading a couple posts on here am thinking of cancelling my upgrade order. Here's my story...it's a long one, sorry!!!
I have been using a used DW4000 without a contract for about a year now.. Have had some transmitter trouble a couple times, once just recently and so I've just gotten a new (refurbished) transmitter arm last week. Pretty confident that neither HughesNetUpper Level Tech Support nor the Satellite repair guy really knew exactly what the problem was, but am back up and running although with a consistently lower signal strength. It also seems to pop in & out of connectivity out of nowhere, even when the weather's great. I'm also worried a little about my ground cord as it looks to me like it's just a wire stuck into the ground....is that what it should look like???
Okay, so over the year my download speeds have been averaging in the mid 900's with highs around 1500. Upload is of course much lower but normal from what I've seen on this board.
I own my own little business as a Virtual Administrative Assistant and MUST have that consistant income to survive. I'm currently working online within several websites where I must look up and input information. I generally have at least 4 browser windows open and flip back/forth. These websites are mostly public construction database websites and CRM sites such as Salesforce.com. Will upgrading to the HN7000S (which advertises better upload speeds) help with my speed in working within these types of websites? ...or is download speed all I need be concerned about?? Which system has less downtime or is there such a system?
I'm only able to work part-time right now, so I need to be able to count on being connected and getting a decent speed whenever I am able to work. I sure don't want to lose clients due to a crappy internet connection....
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Jen
p.s. Did use the pc optimizer (doctor something??) awhile back. Is that something that you need to rerun at certain intervals?
