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tvignoe
New Member
9 years ago

using cell phone extenders with hughesnet

My cell service at home sucks, verizon makes a network extender, I have heard from some it works and others it doesn't work with satelite internet, anyone know?
  • Gwalk900's avatar
    Gwalk900
    9 years ago

    As Corrosive mentioned the Verizon extender is not going to work very well if at all due to the latency inherent to a satellite connection.

    No matter what you do, your signal has to travel 22.300 miles up to the satellite then relayed back down to the ground at your Gateway location ... the return "data" has to again follow the same path.

    The speed of light applies here and about 580 ms latency is about the best you can expect.

    If a device is going to use your Hughes connection, it will be subject to this delay.

     

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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
9 years ago
Netflix works but there is the data limit. No HD, but SD or low definition can be done without eating through excessive amounts of data. Again, still a limit depending on plan amount, can't expect satellite internet to replace cable TV or satellite TV. Low definition Netflix uses about 300 MB per hour, SD about 700 MB per hour.