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You don't have a choice of which satellite you are on. Hughes assigns that as part of their load balancing process in conjunction with where you are physically located. So what you see is what you get. And always remember. the service agreement states "up to" the speed listed for your package. And BTW, you will seldom see it. As for the differance between day and evening. In the evening when everyone gets home from school and work and gets on the internet, you speed will go in the trash can from about 3-5pm till midnight or so.

There isn't any "setup" for the modem. The 7000 does it's own thing. It is "self-hosted". Regarding the dynamic or static IP; that depends on whether or not you ordered a static IP address when you bought the package. If not, then it is dynamic (the modem assigns one to you). So if you run the Hughes LCCU program that sets up your computer, there is nothing else you need to do without getting into that techy bla-bla-bla stuff. Look at the Hughes usage site mentioned above, and when it says you are NOT under FAP, do a speed test from this site.