A year ago, family signs up for HughesNet. Family decides to buy the HughesNet booster - which in concept is a sound idea - especially since Family decided to anchor the HughesNet modem/router at one far end of the house, but Family has an old house, and outlets are few in number, and those in the ideal Wifi coverage zone are encumbered by either being part of the Dining Room or the Kitchen (it's a long narrow kitchen layout - annoying for the cook, for sure.) So, that's a pretty much a "no," for slapping in a wall wart in a public or volatile space, and absolute avoidance of the "mancave" loose snaking-across-floor or taped-to-ceiling cabling approach. Furthermore, an additional "no" to the use of EoP/powerline adapters as fixture infrastructure.
I give full points to HughesNet for simplifying the installation of the booster, but I - I - yeah - I cannot give any points to an overpriced ($99) booster which fails to implement PoE and fails to use a standard 12V "router" plug.
However, I have good news: inexpensive PoE splitters with yellow plastic tips can be ever so slightly altered to permit the slightly larger size of the center conductor tip of the HughesNet booster. With a hobby knife, gently widen the inner circumference until it snugly fits in to the booster.
The model number of the splitter with which I first tried and had first success was a U5160+U6023.
With this alteration, a single cable can be run cleanly through the attic, a clean fixture mounting, and no wall wart.
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