My sister has Hughes, and well, it don't work very good. Can hardly get online, and when they can, it's not all that great.
They oversold the area, as typical. Wild Blue would not subscribe any more around here, but Hughes apparently will still take your money.
Living in the boonies/sticks has some challenges for decent internet service in remote locations, especially in heavily wooded areas.
A local ISP (which we tried a while back when they first offered a service) has been installing directional antennas along the road side, about 7' or so above the ground and providing internet to those who live on the zig-zag roads thru the woods. Don't have first hand experience with this, but did talk to a local who has the service and they say it works OK for what they need.
My AT&T 4G has it's moments, but usually works pretty good up here in the sticks. They recently fired up a new tower that is north of here, so don't have any issues with the tower south that seemed to get drastically diminished by the power line out front. The local ISP we tried had the same issues with the new power line.
Should be getting some demo equipment soon to test for a project I have up north. Supposed to do point to point wireless for up to a 38 mile range. The longest hop I have is 4.7 miles and only transmitting a 4-20ma signal from a Hydrostatic level sensor on an 8400+ acre lake. Not looking to be very cheap at all, if it works, because there are actually 2 sensors, but the longest distance to the control system is 4.7 miles. See what they come up with.
Latency, I was watching the same channel on internet as my Dad was on Dish. I was telling him what they said before it showed up on his TV. It may be a tad more than 600ms.
