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Hughesnet HT2000W
What is the best off the shelf wireless router to buy then using Hughesnet HT2000W router? I would like to replace it with the ORBI wireless cable modem.
Ok, well that did not do what I wanted it to do. So I am going to go back to the HT200W. The triband split the speed up to much that no one can do anything at all. I am just going to keep one computer hardwired and only use the 5g wifi and disable the other and see how that works.
Unfortunately, when it comes to satellite internet, many games will be unplayable due to the high latency (ping) mentioned by infinitytec, regardless of the connection method. It won't really matter whether it's connected directly to the HT2000W via Ethernet cable or connected via WiFi. It's one of the drawbacks of satellite internet.
Turn based games are usually okay, but real time games, like action games, generally don't work well, if at all.
From the FAQ page...
The total round trip is actually about 90,000 miles. One leg is about 22,300 miles, and there are four legs. From your dish to the satellite, then back down to earth at the gateway, which is where your service actually "enters" the net, then back up to the satellite and back down to the dish at your home.
As for the Nighthawk router splitting the speed, keep in mind that the total speed you're getting from the service will be split between devices that are actively using the net at the same time, though not necessarily evenly. So, if you're getting 25Mbps, and you have two devices actively downloading from the net, that 25Mbps will be divided between those two devices, though, again, not necessarily evenly, as one device may be doing something that doesn't require much speed, while the other might be using all the speed it can get. It would be the same with three, or four, or more devices actively using the net. The available speed would be shared and divided between them.
Just to put a lag time on it, independent of channel speed or frequency :
22,300 mi * 4 legs * sec = 478.843 mSec (minimum)
leg 186,282 mi
[The speed of light is 186,282 mi/sec]
- I don't think I have ever seen my average latency being less than 600 ms. Given, I usually test on WiFi, which may contribute to that.
Given it's around 500, add about 100 to the destination for anything added on the upstream route.
Add at least 200 if your upstream is Level3 going to Microsoft. Level3's connection to MS is abysmal right now.
