joe@tittiger.com wrote:
> I have suspended my service to the max allowed by Hughes while on
> vacation.
> I have to decide whether to pay $65 a month for service that I will
> not be using or have it shut off and later turned back on.
>
> My question to the group is: how difficult and how much will I be
> charged to turn it back on?
> Can you reccoment anyone in particular?
>
> Many thanks
> Joe
>
Um, this seems like a question HNS should be able to answer for you.
Unless you're running really old hardware. But AFAIK, all of the really
old DirecPC one-ways were decommissioned a year ago last December and
everyone migrated to a DW3000 or better.

The reason turning off old hardware could be a problem is that if HNS
were phasing out a service, it might become impossible to have it
recommissioned once its turned off.

But for everything from a DW3000 and up I don't believe that is the case.

The trick is how long can you stay off-the-air and still be able to be
recommissioned on the same satellite? It would require a truck roll if
you had to re-point the dish on a 2-way. On a 1-way its cumbersome, but
you can do it yourself.

A good question for the HNS folks. You stand a good change of not getting
a satisfactory answer to this one tho. I suspect the odds of a re-point
increase in proportion to the time you remain dormant.

Good Luck,
Dave