You're the first person I've ever heard say anything good about Hughes net.
Be sure to restart your phone often. The tower will recognize you as a new user and possibly give you better service than a phone that has been connected for days upon days (throttled)Stuck with 4G & a Verizon "jet pack" here. We have line of sight to several phone towers down in the valley, but we believe we are being throttled-back.
Hughesnet was a big disaster for us.
Area coverage; having to buy to a service to find out if it works, reads like a DC career politician saying "we have to pass the budget to find out whats in it"..
Never had Hughesnet, but we did have Wildblue/Excede when we first moved here. A little faster than dialup, but not by much...200k on a good day. Latency was high.
This is the third launch into the next orbital shell. It will take 3 months before these are active. These not only increase 'the herd', but it also increases the connection options for dishy leading to relief of congestion and faster speeds.Just saw where Spacex launched 48 more Starlink Satellites. Increasing the herd!
I had Viasat and paid $179 / month and t was useless.
Do you have standard residential Starlink service or 'best effort'? Did you mean 45 Mb/s speed average or averaging 45GB of data per month? If the former, and you're not on 'best effort', do you have any obstructions? 45 Mb/s is low for standard residential service.
I got Starlink residential service about 1 year ago. At that point my download speeds were in the 170-190Mb/s range with an occasional bump up to 225ish. Over time my speeds dropped to 25-50 Mb/s range, I'm guessing due to oversatuation of service. About 3 weeks ago my dishy reoriented from pointing N to pointing E and my download speeds have increased to the 140-160Mb/s range.
Interesting. I hadn't heard of anyone on standard residential service being below about 75 Mb/s on an average basis. Also interesting that the dish reoriented and has better speeds. Cool.
The discussions have it that a good deal of the coasts are oversold causing congestion which is limiting speeds. Folks on the east coast are having their dishy's moved so they are pointed east over the Atlantic to take advantage of the satellites there that aren't being used and folks on the west coast are having their dishy's pointed west over the Pacific for the same reasons.
It may well be awesome compared to other available ISPs, but it isn't in line with what I know of from Starlink residential, generally. Just asking him in the hopes of being able to find out if his setup has something that can be improved upon.
I hadn't heard that yet.
When I first got my Starlink it was blazing fast. However for the last several months it is just fast. I just ran a couple of speed tests on it had 74 Mbps, 52 Mbps and 49 Mbps down load my upload was between 7 and 11 Mbps. This about what I have seen for the last several months and is quite functional for me. My wife can VPN in for work with minimal issues I can browse and watch videos if desired and we stream a bit of TV some evenings.
Then that explains the speeds.
