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Thank you for your explanation foxbrook. Also, I appreciate you reporting your actual power usage ... View more

You have been quite helpful. Thank you very much. I may yet ask you more questions. ... View more

Thank you for your answer. If the dish is installed, it will definitely be done by a Hughes hired, qualified installer. But I need to know certain things in advance. ... View more

It is not a prank question. There are at best few places around my home where there is a clear line of sight to the satellite. And placing the dish under a tree is one of the possibilities. I'm talking about big trees, and the needed inclination is 45°, not 90°. Also, I think I have final say. But it really doesn't matter. The same question arises if the installer decides to place the dish under a tree. ... View more

Thank you for your help. You've given me a better understanding of things. I do still have some questions. One, do I understand you correctly? I think you're saying that the modem on the modem side of the adapter uses a fairly steady 46 watts no matter what. There is the possibility that the modem uses power to amplify the incoming signal. But, if so, such must be little since an Iridium 9555 satellite phone uses only about 0.5 watts. Is it possible that the modem uses much more power to compute and determine and straighten out the data contained in an incoming signal that's been seriously degraded by weather conditions, solar conditions, whatever? In between transmitting and receiving times is the modem idle, using only a few watts at most? If so, then given the high uploading and downloading speeds of the whole system, the modem would be idle most of the time when someone is surfing the web, since he will spend much of his time looking at each website, printing it, whatever. If the modem uses little power idling, such could more or less provide a reconciliation between what you've said and what Curtis-m said. Does HughesNet use the world's most inefficient power adapter, converting about 150 watts ac to 46 watts dc. I use only dc. Is there a way to connect the modem directly to a dc source of power? ... View more

Thank you for telling me about your actual usage. Such information is useful to me. ... View more

Thank you for your help. But if the signal from the satellite is amplified in the modem and the signal sent to the satellite is powered by the modem, then I would guess that when a signal is neither being sent or received there may be only a few watts being used by the modem. Is this true? If not, how is the extra power being used during idle times. Curtis-m below says he uses 9 watts most of the time on his HN 9000. ... View more