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Sun Mar 3, 2013 7:38 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Skip Knowles" skip_knowles
I will offer up a couple comments research I did for a start up company
almost ten years ago plus how I have used the Hughes bird since 2006.
Most companies we deal with at our level are VARs or capacity resellers
which contract to VARs. Many of these lower level companies then sell
capacity on the birds for business use where bandwidth isn't available in
their area from Telcos or cable companies. Bandwidth is sole based on the
use the company will need for their business. Most all packages have some
limit to a customer bandwidth and/or bit rate they operate for a customer.
The more you pay the more they allow.
I think you have your upload and download numbers reversed when think of
typical terms. Download is from the satellite to the subscriber like us.
Upload is from our PC/modem to the bird. This same thing applied to older
DSL and even FIOS (Verizon Fiber) today.
What Don and other son the forum might be able to tell you is whether the
Hughes satellites have a foot print to where would be located down there. I
think they do have satellite service for that area using the SatMex bird...
I just don't have the footprint to know if it would serve you... it probably
does. There are a number of folks who have Hughes service through VARs up
here and are pointed at the SatMex bird but I also think that other birds
Hughes provides service with in different orbits serve parts of Mexico too.
These folks travel and set up their own.
It takes a little hand holding but you can learn to set up your own
dish...even down there I would think.
Now for mobile service you must deal with a VAR as Hughes support isn't
geared to support people who move. Hughes peddles service with their newer
HN9000 modem which I understand can support more speeds BUT it also uses
spot beam technology the foot print for you home has to be within that spot
beam. I suspect too they could use a VAR in Mexico and allow their service
through them with the 9000 but who knows what mark up the VAR would add.
You option might be to subscribe to service up here where the VAR would
assign you to a bird that has a footprint to your Mexico location. Buy an
HN7000s modem which works all over the continent and then take it down
there.
Bear in mind that residential sat service has bit rate limitations of around
425 mb/24 hour period. If you exceed that then the speed drops down to dial
up speed for 24 hours. So, if your doing a lot of video streaming it isn't
good for this. You might also converse with a VAR and see if they have a
higher bit service used in commercial applications that they could help you
with. BUT, you should learn to set the system up yourself if you want to
avoid dealing with the cost mark ups down there.
These are just my thoughts and ideas from a casual subscriber perspective. I
bow to the Don and the VARs expertise for more accurate and newer ideas that
might help you out.
Skip
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> Edit by Roger, Anyone want to tackle this:
>
> Hi folks
>
> A month ago I bought a satellite Internet equipment [ 39" round (.98m)
> HughesNet dish, 2 watt transmitter / receiver, satellite Modem ] and get
> enroll with a monthly service with a provider in Mexico, (the equipment is
> installed in south Mexico). Although my service is 2Mbps upload and 512
> Kbps download, we never reach those speeds and most of the time is very
> slow (100 kbps download, 50 kbps upload) and not mention that is really
> expensive, then I have decided to stop using this slow service.
>
> In fact this mexican provider resells the service from an US company,
> that's why they are incredibly expensive (I suspect too, that my provider
> contracts lower speeds). Then I want to know if you know US companies that
> could provide me the service directly without intermediaries, I believe
> that I just need to point the equipment to the proper satellite and make
> some technical magic, which I don't know (that's why I started to look for
> information too, I hope you can point me to technical lectures in order to
> learn how to do it)
>
> Please let me know if this is possible and what should I need to do to
> accomplish it, I'm willing to listen any options you could provide me.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Manuel
>
almost ten years ago plus how I have used the Hughes bird since 2006.
Most companies we deal with at our level are VARs or capacity resellers
which contract to VARs. Many of these lower level companies then sell
capacity on the birds for business use where bandwidth isn't available in
their area from Telcos or cable companies. Bandwidth is sole based on the
use the company will need for their business. Most all packages have some
limit to a customer bandwidth and/or bit rate they operate for a customer.
The more you pay the more they allow.
I think you have your upload and download numbers reversed when think of
typical terms. Download is from the satellite to the subscriber like us.
Upload is from our PC/modem to the bird. This same thing applied to older
DSL and even FIOS (Verizon Fiber) today.
What Don and other son the forum might be able to tell you is whether the
Hughes satellites have a foot print to where would be located down there. I
think they do have satellite service for that area using the SatMex bird...
I just don't have the footprint to know if it would serve you... it probably
does. There are a number of folks who have Hughes service through VARs up
here and are pointed at the SatMex bird but I also think that other birds
Hughes provides service with in different orbits serve parts of Mexico too.
These folks travel and set up their own.
It takes a little hand holding but you can learn to set up your own
dish...even down there I would think.
Now for mobile service you must deal with a VAR as Hughes support isn't
geared to support people who move. Hughes peddles service with their newer
HN9000 modem which I understand can support more speeds BUT it also uses
spot beam technology the foot print for you home has to be within that spot
beam. I suspect too they could use a VAR in Mexico and allow their service
through them with the 9000 but who knows what mark up the VAR would add.
You option might be to subscribe to service up here where the VAR would
assign you to a bird that has a footprint to your Mexico location. Buy an
HN7000s modem which works all over the continent and then take it down
there.
Bear in mind that residential sat service has bit rate limitations of around
425 mb/24 hour period. If you exceed that then the speed drops down to dial
up speed for 24 hours. So, if your doing a lot of video streaming it isn't
good for this. You might also converse with a VAR and see if they have a
higher bit service used in commercial applications that they could help you
with. BUT, you should learn to set the system up yourself if you want to
avoid dealing with the cost mark ups down there.
These are just my thoughts and ideas from a casual subscriber perspective. I
bow to the Don and the VARs expertise for more accurate and newer ideas that
might help you out.
Skip
===========
> Edit by Roger, Anyone want to tackle this:
>
> Hi folks
>
> A month ago I bought a satellite Internet equipment [ 39" round (.98m)
> HughesNet dish, 2 watt transmitter / receiver, satellite Modem ] and get
> enroll with a monthly service with a provider in Mexico, (the equipment is
> installed in south Mexico). Although my service is 2Mbps upload and 512
> Kbps download, we never reach those speeds and most of the time is very
> slow (100 kbps download, 50 kbps upload) and not mention that is really
> expensive, then I have decided to stop using this slow service.
>
> In fact this mexican provider resells the service from an US company,
> that's why they are incredibly expensive (I suspect too, that my provider
> contracts lower speeds). Then I want to know if you know US companies that
> could provide me the service directly without intermediaries, I believe
> that I just need to point the equipment to the proper satellite and make
> some technical magic, which I don't know (that's why I started to look for
> information too, I hope you can point me to technical lectures in order to
> learn how to do it)
>
> Please let me know if this is possible and what should I need to do to
> accomplish it, I'm willing to listen any options you could provide me.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Manuel
>
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