Re: faster POS sales in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19645002 en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:38:10 EDT Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:38:10 EDT Re: faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19647314 anon : 90% of the pay at the pump transactions in the US is VSAT based. It never takes me more than 3-4 seconds.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19647314 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:25:51 EDT Re: faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645987 PolarBear : Same in Washington, and I assume most states. The convenience store I once worked at had one HN dish for lottery, and another for POS transactions.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645987 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:41:55 EDT Re: faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645850 wierdo :
said by audiog See Profile :

And I know you have swiped the card and experienced a delay of 30 or more seconds for the transaction to complete.
Generally, although not always, delays like that are due to the establishment using analog dial up to process cards, rather than a leased line or VSAT. Even though they fix the terminals and the modem pools at 1200bps (iirc) to speed connection times, it still takes quite a while.

Personally, I prefer stores that use either leased line or ISDN dialup, so the authorization takes 1-5 seconds.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645850 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:21:29 EDT Re: faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645002 anon : mm, do not agree with that entirely. Their consumer base is growing 15.000 a month, and believe me, the B2B business isn't growing that much (less than 10% actually in NA). Agree, Spaceway certainly will bring new applications to the B2B arena, but the consumer business is certainly not playground for Hughes.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645002 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:11:32 EDT Re: faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645043 manhole : Yes, exactly. I know one of their big customers is the California Lottery. Most stores that sell lottery tickets here in California use Hughes as their connection. That is a pretty large customer base just from that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19645043 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:17:13 EDT faster POS sales http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19644665 audiog : The founding customer base for Hughes is Point of Sales transactions processing. Look at the roof of Gas stations, large chain stores for the dish. Residential is a relatively new thing for them. This means that during busy times of the day the extra capacity will go to POS processing. And I know you have swiped the card and experienced a delay of 30 or more seconds for the transaction to complete.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19644665 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:16:25 EDT