@Virgil2U Sorry, but to quote Firesign Theatre, "Everything You Know Is Wrong". lol If everything you learned in college was when I went to college in the late 70's/early 80's, yeah, it was true then. Flashfoward (holy crap...) 40 years and compression technology's moved well beyond Nyquist's bandwidth equations. Yeah, there's possibly a 400ms+ delay on account of the speed of light and distance up/down between you and a gateway, but who says the actual channel rate is slow even using best 2/4 forward error correction signalling methods... Sorry, but whoever convinced you HughesNet email is coded differently owes you a beer for yanking your chain. Once it leaves the gateway onto the backbone it's just like any other internet provider, and it's 100% compliant... otherwise my personal email server would be rejecting it.
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