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Problems using cell phones over WiFi
I have an android phone capable of making calls using WiFi when no cell service is available. I have Hughes net Gen 5 and when I make calls I can hear the person on the other end very clearly, but t...
Hello Rebyroo, cell over WiFi generally will not work well on satellite due to the high latency (ping). There is no remedy for the latency because the satellite is so far up in space.
Hello Rebyroo, cell over WiFi generally will not work well on satellite due to the high latency (ping). There is no remedy for the latency because the satellite is so far up in space.
Here it is guys I ask hughesnet - will cell phones with hughesnet work on wifi calling.Yes they said. But we know it is not true. They use VOIP and so does cell phones that have wifi calling. It works. The technology is there to bundle blocks of the voice signal VOIP in correct blocks which allows the travel distance to be a non issue. They do it on there network with there Voice service but use a hard line phone with and anolog adaptor. They can call a cell phone. So why is there an APP to buffer and bundle the blocks of voice
they use the same block tech for data transmissions and voice is not much data.
So i asked the question about wifi calling to highesnet before i signed up. Also try turning on do not disturb on your cell phone and use Hug5 wifi connection. Not as long distance but better. Use it only for you cell phone.
Inaddtion there is a VOIP router but not cheap. It bundles blocks of the VOIP for smooth transmission.
Hughesnet just want you to use there voice system the technology is there they tell cuctomers that wifi calling does not work. They claim it will because Gen 5 will work for wifi calling on cell phones because of upload speeds of 3mg/s ( min upload for wifi calling with VOIP is 2 mg/s) is only true if they use better VOIP for this application. Now the worst is cell phone to cell phone with different carriers and at far distances. But again the technology is there. If you wait when you answer your cell phone and talk real slow in short sentences you will find out that that is there limit of there VOIP on there server. Poor Poor Sam
I am having issues with calls breaking up with both house phone and cell phones EVEN when cell is not using the wifi. It seems that hughes signal somehow is corrupting my cell signal as well. If I go outside 50+ feet from house, the cell signal no longer has the breaking up problem. That tells me there is something in the Hughes system that isn't right. Anyone have any ideas? Cell is thru Verzion and I am in the Smoky Mountains near Gatlingburg, TN
Very interesting observation, although not sure if you were having a few drinks when posting. I read over this a couple times to decipher what your exactly trying to say - is cell phone on wifi a working proposition or not? I have a Driod turbo that works sometimes to make calls. My other a Huwaei Honor8 won't place calls unless I turn off wifi. I am using FREEDOMPOP as my cell service provider so making calls from Wifi is very helpful if it would work.
1. Making calls over wifi via satellite Internet in order to supplement the mobile signal is not recommended nor is it supported. As I understand it, this is true for all satellite Internet due to the latency. Edit: Don't confuse phone calling extenders over wifi with the VOIP system HughesNet has in place. It operates on a completely different technology.
2. There is nothing in the HughesNet system that radiates at a power or frequency that will disrupt or interfere with your mobile phone's ability to make or receive calls. Pretty sure whatever is being experienced is a factor of the phone's proximity to available cell towers.
- I go through the Hughesnet modem, as stated before by others; I hear everything said by the other person but they hear only partial. My former DSL modem had no problem obviously as some stated, it’s a satellite issue!
For many months I had good voice conversations using a iphone 7 wifi. Then one morning, can hear incoming speech but my out going voice is scrambled. If you cancel the jacked dumb phone VOIP service the smart phone wifi service collapses. Nobody at Hughesnet cares or understands any of this. If a VOIP dumb phone works, theres is obviously a way to make a wifi connected smart phone to work. But that $40 a month VOIP, its a very expensive and worthless option that make Hughesnet millions$. Having two phones number with no cell service is unacceptible. WiFi Calling with a cell phone works, and works well. But the uploads speeds are terrible, however, again the dumb phone has no problem. Am I the only person that flipping mad at not being able to have a cell phone conversation! Having to call people back with the crappy jacked dumb phone.
Same issue here in NC, with Verizon as my cellular carrier. I was disappointed to figure out that the cell over WiFi (all Hughes equipment) did not work well and had lots of clipping and drops. As others have pointed out latency is the primary issue however some of that is solved by applying QoS (Quality of Service) to the VOIP packets. Unfortunately Hughes routers/modems (as far as I can tell) do not allow for independent VOIP and QoS configurations and as a business they obviously direct you to their own VOIP product which integrates with the other Hughes equipment to supply QoS.
REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service
I broke down and installed a cellular booster. ROI for the product I purchased is equal to17 months of Hughes voice service and as a bonus my guests get cellular boosted without joining my wireless network.
Spoiler(weBoost - mid-range $$)
