4 ms·

Huges was probably great an eon ago.

• mynameisvlad 4y ago
  Hughes was never and will never be able to be low latency with their current setup. You’re fighting against physics at that point due to the location of the satellites compared to Starlink. They also have always had exceptionally restrictive data caps. So I wouldn’t say they were ever “great”. Just realistic.
  • ohiovr 4y ago
    Good to know. Geostationary latency is a bitch.
  • ghaff 4y ago
    And data caps. Where my brother has a house in rural coastal Maine, the only two options further down his road (~1 Mbps DSL went as far as his house) were essentially Hughes or Verizon hotspot. Everyone who looked into it basically concluded that they were better than no Internet but you really couldn't do things like video streaming to any significant degree. Starlink is a game-changer for somewhere like this that had really marginal Internet and basically someone couldn't have worked from there. (People did go into the local small city and do Internet from the cafe or library but that obviously doesn't work for regular full-time work.)