dslreports logo    how-to block ads  Hughes uses a proprietary
piece of equipment to accept the radio signals called BCD (Burst
Channel De-modulator). There is another device called a DNCC
that converts the radio signal into an Ethernet packet. The BCD
is a shared medium device in the fact that several people will
share one BCD for their in route. Each BCD has a max of 128 Kbps
and with overhead it is about 113. With that in mind even if you
were the only person on a BCD you would still not get 128 Kbps.
You may find, however, that your upload speed appears higher
than 128Kbs. There are a couple of reasons. First of all,
Direcway uses compression techniques to compress the data before
it is sent so that there is less data to send and then
uncompresses it at the other end. So if you are transmitting
highly compressible data you will find that the upload will
occur faster. If, on the other hand the data you are sending is
already highly compressed, the upload will take longer.  Also
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