Nation Wide Satellite Provider
Hughes Net is a company dedicated to the service of Satellite ISP (Internet Service Provider). In a less technical jargon, it is a company that can provide Internet access by means of satellite transmission of data.
Compared to the traditional dial-up services, the satellite transmission has some advantages and in the case of HughesNet, the only specific requirement is that the user has a good view of the southern sky.
The company offers a group of commercial packages ranging from the home user (running at 700 Kbps) to the office (2000 Kbps), and the prices are reasonable. If the payments are made in advance, the customer can get a mail-in rebate, that cheapens the price of the service.
The main benefit of Satellite Internet is the availability, basically the connection uses to be up and running 24×7. It makes a difference when compared with the traditional dial-up and even some ADSL connections.
Who would be interested in the service? Basically, the people that lives in the regions where there is no dial-up or cable service, and also, the people that travels a lot inside the country and needs to be online all the time.
Nevertheless, there is one thing to consider, as the signal has to travel for thousands of kilometers, the latency tends to be increased (by some fraction of a second), which makes it unsuitable for playing online games - as World of Warcraft.
