HughesNet Satellite Service With 5 mbps Download Speed Coming This Fall

I’m a rural-living person who often consults people on how to get broadband Internet connectivity to their middle-of-nowhere homes. There’s some good news for most of those people. HughesNet, the big guy in the satellite Internet service space operated by Hughes Network systems (no relation), has announced that later this month that it will begin offering what it’s calling the ElitePremium plan, with download speeds available as fast as 5 megabits per second (mbps). That’s up there speed-wise with what many cable companies provide, and is easily a competitor to DSL speed capabilities. It’ll be available to order on August 21st.

Satellite Internet has some inherent latency between the time a request is sent and the resulting data is fed to you, since the distance the signal travels, even at the speed of light, is pretty darned far. Many VPN systems have a difficult time on satellite, also due to the time-shift latency. But the “start” delay is not huge, and once the “faucet is open,” 5 mbps is pretty darned fast.

That’s about five times the download speed I get on my Internet connection, which is an excellent terrestrial wireless offering from a local provider (which is Cascade Networks, if you happen to live in the Longview, Washington or Columbia County, Oregon areas). An antenna on my roof points at a tower on a mountain about 11 miles away, and that’s the option I use.

So, more options and much faster speeds for us non-city-dwellers. Not a bad deal!

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