Typical Internet Data Rate Down Range

[Jefedesalto]

Hi gents and ladies,

It's been a while since I've been around Military TACSAT and I was wondering if someone could tell me what download speeds are generally achievable down range?

Are you guys using HTMS satellites yet?

 

[TLDR20]

Slow... I don't know speeds

 

[AWP]

Pretty much everything in CENTCOM is Ku Band. DKETs were slowly upgrading to X band, but I haven't heard of any Ka Band out there. That isn't to say there aren't, but I don't think they are common.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Very slow, probably on average under 100 k for an internet download. What is HTMS?

 

[AWP]

Military TACSAT bandwidth is available in open source manuals. Let's not have any discussions beyond that. Base comms are a bit different when you look at places like Bagram or the larger FOBs where you're running commercial Net for many applications (with caveats we won't discuss either).

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Sorry if I crossed a line. Was just answering his question and wondering what HTMS was.

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