11 replies to this topic

[mbeer]

Is it worth the extra $20 bucks a month to upgrade from the home to the Pro plan at Hughes? Will I see any noticable differences do you think?

[tommie gorman]

You should see big differences, if it all goes right. 

Good luck.

So post a speed test. 

[mbeer]

Cool.  I was not sure if the extra $20 would be worth it or not..you can't believe what Hughes says anyways.  Maybe I will give it a try and post some speeds.

[tm24ns58]

Well I just upgraded from the DW6000 home plan to the HN7000S pro plan. I am very disappointed.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 331 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 40 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/03/25 - 3:17pm
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 25.6 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 74.143 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 33.88 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-4VEA8DM10
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 [!]

[tommie gorman]

Long time no see tm24ns58. those speeds suck. I no you were over 1 full meg before. 

[tm24ns58]

Yes indeed I was Tommie. I have no idea what has happened. I have a fresh install of Vista right now without any tweaks at all except for Firefox tweaks.

[granpa]

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Yes indeed I was Tommie. I have no idea what has happened. I have a fresh install of Vista right now without any tweaks at all except for Firefox tweaks.

tm24ns58 it would be likely to say you may need to tweak the system (dish alignment) for the new modem especially if you changed transponders. I don't remember Hughes telling anyone about this since there is really no way of knowing until after the upgrade but I do remember some having realignments after upgrades. Also sometimes it may take a day or two for the system to stablize, it does some seff adjusting.

[pioneer_56]

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Is it worth the extra $20 bucks a month to upgrade from the home to the Pro plan at Hughes? Will I see any noticable differences do you think?

Hit or miss if it will improve, more toward the miss side. I would save the cash as you would be better off with out the upgrade.

[tm24ns58]

I wanted to come back and post my speed today. It was not long after my other post that my speed tweaks took effect. Below is my speed today. This test was taken at 4:11pm EST. So that is peak time. I am getting very good results in my opinion.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1723 Kbps about 1.7 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)
Download Speed is:: 210 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/12/08 - 3:10pm
Bottom Line:: 30X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.88 sec
Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 58.415 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 73.86 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-0X5K27S6J
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!]

[tommie gorman]

NO kidding, huge difference indeed. Congrats. Satelite= patience 

[tm24ns58]

Things have gotten better and have been stable. Yeah!!!!!



::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 2046 Kbps about 2 Mbps (tested with 6152 kB)
Download Speed is:: 250 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/08/23 - 1:11pm
Bottom Line:: 36X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.1 sec
Tested from a 6152 kB file and took 24.629 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 108.99 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-AX1S24M3D
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

[tommie gorman]

Real nice, congrats. Glad its holding.