It’s cute that you’re worried about me. But it’s still better than whatever else is currently available at my house. And it will always be better than anything using geostationary orbit.

I’d rather have fiber, too. But until it’s available here, this is the next best thing.

Physics says otherwise.

Geostationary orbit, which is where hughesnet satellites are, is approximately 22 THOUSAND miles away.

That’s a round trip of 44 thousand miles.

That’s a ping time of 236ms just for the satellite connection, before any other connections are added in.

That’s worse than my dialup latency was in the 90s

Meanwhile, my Starlink ping averages less than 40ms, because these satellites are MUCH MUCH closer.

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TIL 120 is 4 x 70…

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Downvotes for facts. I pay 120/mo. It’s either this, 3Mbps DSL, or T-Mobile home 5G that works when it feels like it.