miab87•4mo ago

Paid $80 for a satellite internet booster that did absolutely nothing

Read the reviews, watched the videos, seemed legit. Hooked it up to my HughesNet dish and my speeds actually dropped from 3 Mbps to 1.5. Wasted a whole Saturday on the roof too. Has anybody actually gotten one of those things to work or are they all scams?

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rose_grant784mo ago

Figured this was common knowledge by now, those things are just fancy antennas at best. Are we really acting like a $80 box can fix the actual limitations of satellite internet?

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seanjohnson4mo ago

@rose_grant78 what specifically do you think actually causes the biggest lag issues?

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hugo_nelson3mo ago

idk, reminds me of when I tried to use a signal booster in a basement and still couldn't get a bar to save my life. @rose_grant78 might be onto something about those boxes just being fancy antennas honestly.

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