DesertSnake

Howdy kfahern, I also have Wildblue (Execed 12). I just moved from Hughesnet, since they won’t hook folks in Southern Arizona to their “New” Gen4 (which is having major problems). When I was researching Wildblue, I noticed a lot of people would start off working O.K., but then in a week or so, their system slowed down and starting “resetting” all the time (especially if you used a router). On Hughesnet, I had a similar problem with the last Satellite modem (HN9000) that I had. I found out that it had a major thermal problem, which I fixed by putting a 4 in. fan on the modem. When the Wildblue installer left, I put the fan on the Wildblue modem. I have never had a problem with my speed or the router “resetting” problem that everyone else, seems to have. I am not getting the 2 mbps upload speeds, but I think that is because the installer did not “tweek” the alignment of the dish – he just “eye balled” it and it was close enough to the “acceptable power” range, so he never went back up on the roof. You might want to try the fan trick. My Internet Speed Desert_Snake