Will hughes net work with Linux Mint?

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Will hughesnet work with Linux Mint?
i looked on the net and on "hughesnet community" But no one "specifically" says.
im looking for a new/different isp and cell phone or satellite are my only options.
 


The ISP will almost certainly supply a router and so your normal connections will work. I can't see an ISP provided router not also including wireless, so you should be able to connect both wired and wireless by default.

At the end of the day, it's just the ISP providing the pipe. The pipe uses satellite, but there's no other differences at your end.

Anecdotally, I used a satellite connection for about a year - with Linux. That was back a dozen years ago, when my house was being built and before DSL was an option. It worked just fine. As an end user, you shouldn't really notice anything else - except for some lag.
 
Thank you.
- except for some lag.
LOL on a good day i will get 902.96kbps up and 866.34kbps down. A bit of lag will not bother me :)
 
LOL on a good day i will get 902.96kbps up and 866.34kbps down. A bit of lag will not bother me

Yeah, the lag will be an improvement. It's only noticed when you first start a download or load a web page. The lag is a matter of physics as the signal must make the round trip to and from a satellite. It's livable lag, though probably not if you're an online gamer of any kind.

My download speeds are currently acceptable. My big bottleneck is uploading.
 
Will hughesnet work with Linux Mint?
i looked on the net and on "hughesnet community" But no one "specifically" says.
im looking for a new/different isp and cell phone or satellite are my only options.
Yes hughesnet will work!
 
See? I told ya that you'd be all set!

I don't imagine they could have done much with the lag. That's a matter of physics. Still, how is the lag.
 
LOL im not going to be playing Ultima online thats for sure!
At 9:00pm "DOWNLOAD SPEED: 0.50 Mbps" "UPLOAD SPEED: 0.58 Mbps"
 
We'll have some fun with this and see if it's informative.

Press CTRL + ALT + T and that will open your terminal. Copy/paste the following:

Code:
ping linuxtips.gq

When you get bored, press CTRL + C.

Also, you can just run this command and not learn the bit about CTRL + C.

Code:
ping -c 5 linuxtips.gq

You will see something like this:

Code:
64 bytes from linuxtips.gq (45.34.7.20): icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=151 ms

At the bottom, you can look at the output that looks like this:

Code:
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 130.579/178.571/331.768/76.868 ms

And the interesting part is the 2nd column - the average time it took to complete each ping.
 
LOL that was Kind of fun :) Thank you ill copy and paste this for my notes.
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 553.150/722.507/1505.063/164.748 ms, pipe 2
 
Yeah, that lag is gonna be in the 'not good' category, though it is better than dial-up and it isn't too bad when you are doing things that aren't impacted by lagging.
 

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