Satellite internet
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https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started#
So I'm booking a vacation next year, and there will be spotty cell service there. It got me thinking of satellite internet options. I found https://www.hughesnet.com/get-started#
I know it's a vauge question but does anyone else have alternatives for spotty cell reception when traveling?
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Not really. What part of the world will this be? Or are you just referring to the MangoCon location? LMAO
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I've had experience with hughesnet and they do have plans that have low caps, like 10GB / month caps. So just be ware.
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@scottalanmiller said in Satellite internet:
Not really. What part of the world will this be? Or are you just referring to the MangoCon location? LMAO
Haha. My word... I hope there is decent internet this year :). This will be out in like Wyoming and South Dakota. Just really crappy reception there from what I hear.
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@nerdydad said in Satellite internet:
I've had experience with hughesnet and they do have plans that have low caps, like 10GB / month caps. So just be ware.
@nerdydad said in Satellite internet:
I've had experience with hughesnet and they do have plans that have low caps, like 10GB / month caps. So just be ware.
And pretty solid connections?
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@fuznutz04 said in Satellite internet:
@scottalanmiller said in Satellite internet:
Not really. What part of the world will this be? Or are you just referring to the MangoCon location? LMAO
Haha. My word... I hope there is decent internet this year :). This will be out in like Wyoming and South Dakota. Just really crappy reception there from what I hear.
Oh man, yeah. I was there less than a year ago, it's rough. But I was on T-Mobile working from the phone while driving through and did okay. Mostly had service.
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@scottalanmiller said in Satellite internet:
@fuznutz04 said in Satellite internet:
@scottalanmiller said in Satellite internet:
Not really. What part of the world will this be? Or are you just referring to the MangoCon location? LMAO
Haha. My word... I hope there is decent internet this year :). This will be out in like Wyoming and South Dakota. Just really crappy reception there from what I hear.
Oh man, yeah. I was there less than a year ago, it's rough. But I was on T-Mobile working from the phone while driving through and did okay. Mostly had service.
Ok. I have Verizon so fingers crossed
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It was pretty good and lasted through thunderstorms.
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@nerdydad good to know. The data caps are low, but that is expected for satellite.
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Just beware of the response times. We had a 2600ms average response time on a Hugs Net satellite connection, made even an otherwise fast connection feel like molasses.
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@travisdh1 said in Satellite internet:
Just beware of the response times. We had a 2600ms average response time on a Hugs Net satellite connection, made even an otherwise fast connection feel like molasses.
Same when @Minion-Queen had it. Over 2000ms for anything, so even though there was bandwidth, you couldn't use it.
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Yeah, that's what I heard for satellite. Can't wait for the low orbit satellites.
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Yeah, latency was utterly terrible. In-laws said they could watch Netflix on it but that would take most of their data allotted.
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@nerdydad said in Satellite internet:
Yeah, latency was utterly terrible. In-laws said they could watch Netflix on it but that would take most of their data allotted.
Yeah, once something actually got started, the speed was good. It's just getting anything started was really slow. It really didn't help that they had a data allotment of 2 GB and 8 people actually using it.
@fuznutz04 I agree, low orbit satellites have been an obvious target for any company with the means to get started with it for a number of years now. Can't happen fast enough!
