[Hidden-tech] HughesNet reviews

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:08:43 -0400 Greg Caulton <greg at gregcaulton.com> wrote:

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> Thanks for the detail, Sam :-)
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> How would satellite be for watching live events, eg: sport? Is that the same
> as watching movies?

Gigabytes are gigabytes, whether they are live or canned.  It will still use 
up your data cap.  So yes, it is the same as watching movies.

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> > On Oct 1, 2017, at 12:31 AM, Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com> wrote:
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> > Apparently Hughesnet is 25 Mbps download and 3Mbps upload. DSL is 
> > usually between 768Kbps and 1.5 Mbps so satellite should be much 
> > faster.  Speed of DSL is highly dependent on your distance from the CO 
> > (Central Office, the switch where your phone line separates from the 
> > main line), if you're far enough away it will either be very slow or at 
> > around 18,000 feet away you won't be able to get it. Also, not all CO's 
> > support DSL.
> > 
> > As mentioned, the two problems with satellite are latency and weather. 
> > Latency is very high so it's fine for watching movies (all one way) but 
> > there is noticeable lag time after you click when browsing websites 
> > (between .7 and 1.2 seconds compared to around .01 to .07 seconds for 
> > DSL, depending) and terrible for time-synchronous applications (video 
> > calls/conferencing or online gaming).
> > 
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