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Because your data travels a long way into space and then back down. When you request a document (packet) the space travel alone is 88,964 Miles total. If you are getting true speeds slower than dial-up you may have an issue with your dish pointing, network, computer, or bad weather as well.
Long Answer:
Hughes.net satellite internet travels from your computer through whatever network you have setup, into geostationary orbit, back down to the United States East Coast in Maryland I think? Then it travels across the land lines to your destination and then back on the same route. I believe the limitation with Hughes Net is the fact that your data is traveling so far, also they have one data center on the east coast and it usually has some speed issues internally too.
If you are transferring a lot of really small files you will notice this communication distance because a steady stream is not being sent to your computer. The computer is consistently asking for more data, increasing upstream plus downstream communications. If you transfer just one large file you will notice faster speeds because a steady download stream is sent to your computer with less need to send upstream requests.
If they had a data center on the west coast and on the east coast, or even one in Texas, we would see a little lower latency. The biggest disappointment with Hughes Net is quality. They are trying to make it affordable *cough* and to do that they seem to have lost quality in their support and in their data centers.
A new satellite is being launched in 2012. Lets hope it will help some users get better speed. http://bit.ly/cF8Dc
Geostationary Orbit. Look at this map (http://bit.ly/3FEVCD) and think about data traveling to and from the black dotted line. Notice that it is far out (22,241 Miles) that is the same distance of the equatorial circumference of Earth, and the data travels that path twice.
User Comments:
*I have Hughes. Net about a month and I am very disappointed. The average speed is 720b/s.
*I've used Hughes.Net business Services and am mostly disappointed with their really bad Modem/Router (HN9000 / HN7000 ) that forces your network to conform to with missing features.
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