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[fikester]

It seems Hughes is getting more generous with the bandwidth?

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4438 Kbps about 4.4 Mbps (tested with 6152 kB)
Download Speed is:: 542 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010-04-04 17:01:19 GMT
Bottom Line:: 77X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.89 sec
Tested from a 6152 kB file and took 11.357 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 399.77 % faster than the average for host (direcway.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-49WIJ3RQS
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.0.30729) [!]



:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 4053 Kbps about 4.1 Mbps (tested with 12280 kB)
Download Speed is:: 495 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010-04-04 17:02:20 GMT
Bottom Line:: 71X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.07 sec
Tested from a 12280 kB file and took 24.82 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 356.42 % faster than the average for host (direcway.com)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-EGVW0XP45
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.0.30729) [!]

[zalternate]

From what I've read, is that Hughesnet went into some maintenance the other night on the HN9000 system. And they broke the FAP meter on the HN9000(not deducting bandwidth used). And the speeds pretty well tripled.

Edited by zalternate, 04 April 2010 - 11:19 AM.

[tommie gorman]

I wonder how long that will last.        Thats the first time I've seen hughes give out the money's worth.

[Conuck]

tommie gorman, on 04 April 2010 - 03:38 PM, said:

I wonder how long that will last. Thats the first time I've seen hughes give out the money's worth.

[fikester]

Yes, I did experience some down time on Saturday 4-3-10...... when I called in the idiots credited me $79 and schelduled a tech to come replace my transmitter. (Hughes assured me bad radio and possible dish alignment problem) A few hours later all was running fine, but did not notice the speed increase until today. Still getting great speeds, hope it last.

[zalternate]

I would love to see an Auditors report on the waste of money that is rampant in the satellite Internet industry. But thats what happens when you B.S. the users every freaking minute of the day and night.
On one hand the user is being blamed for a crap connection and the user spends money to make their, nothing wrong computer, faster and better.
Then there is , "Oh your dish is crooked or your TRIA or modem is going bad, But for $95, an installer can come out and waste his and your time on equipment that works perfect for an oversubscribed spotbeam".



http://customercare.myhughesnet.com/

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We will be performing maintenance on our systems on April 3, 2010 between 12:01 AM and 10:00 AM ET. During the maintenance window customers will not be able to process payments, make changes to email, access HughesNet account administration features or access to the HughesNet Services website. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.

[fikester]

It seems Hughes has again tweaked the service.....no more elite plan speeds. The FAP meter is now working again as well as a new reset time. The new reset time for me is around midnight, prior to the screw up the counter reset at 2:30pm.