Forget optimal speeds – what kind of speed will I really get?
A small amount of bandwidth is used for network overhead such as addressing so won’t be available for data transfer, but this only is a tiny fraction of your capacity. A satellite internet connection, like cable and DSL connections, is shared with other customers in your area. Note that you are sharing the connection only for traffic purposes; the other users can’t see your data or get access to your computer through this shared data pipeline. You are just “sharing the road᾿ on the way to your destination. Any shared connection is going to see reduced speed during periods of high traffic. You may see a reduction in speed of about a third, both for uploads and downloads, during periods of high activity. However it is likely that you won’t even notice these slowdowns. Estimated speeds during peak traffic on our products are: • HughesNet Home 550Kbps down/75 Kbps up • HughesNet Professional 700 Kbps down/115 Kbps up • HughesNet Elite 800 Kbps down/185 Kbps up • HughesNet ElitePlus 1.
