Can the 1.7k latency be lowered at all if you have HughesNet satellite Internet and play sentence quite frequently when you have no alternative to satellite

Unfortunately, it is not possible to do anything about the latency issue with satellite Internet. Latency is the time delay experienced from when the Internet signal travels up to the satellite and back down to your receiver dish. It is exactly the same delay you may have noticed when a news reporter is broadcasting from, say Tel Aviv and you see a time delay. This delay is just about half a second.