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You could get a business plan before with the 6000, but not anymore. To get a business plan now, they'd force you to upgrade your dish, transmitter, and modem, plus sign a new contract to get it. Your best bet, is to buy a used DW7000 off of ebay. If you do, simply make sure that the old account was closed in good standing. You could do this by getting the serial number from the seller, and calling Hughes sales to make sure you can swap. A lot of folks have done this with success.

You can on some games, but I wouldn't recommend it for FPS or real time action games.

My guess, judgeing from the upload stats, is that someone is using P2P on your network. Don't know if its your kids or you or whoever, but certain P2P apps, esp bit torrent, will wreak havoc on your router (if you don't have the firmware updated), and on the DW6000. Unless you send a lot of large emails, or upload stuff to a website, your upload stats shouldn't be that high. Also, you said that your system is grounded. Is your transmitter grounded, or just the cables? If there is a copper wire coming off of the arm on dish running into the ground, then that is probably not your problem, but it is good to check.

Ok, there is definately something wrong here, and it could be a number of things. Let's start with the basics. What is your signal strength, and has it dropped in the past few weeks. Have you looked at your dish lately? Is there any water in the feedhorn?(little plastic window on the transmitter)

Show us your transmission stats. Im curious as to your failed transmit stats....

Pinging www.testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=986ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=755ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=735ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=774ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=695ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=765ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=685ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=804ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=785ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=715ms TTL=47 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 685ms, Maximum = 986ms, Average = 769ms

Im not exactly sure, but most of the upgrades are dealing with firmware on the modems (DW7000 and HN7000s), and software at the NOCs. Aparently, these upgrades are making it possible for those folks who are on the "Pro Plus" plan to actually get their advertised speeds, and are making improvements on those peak hour slow downs.

Well, that's debateable. I think one reason that it didn't used to was that uploads were slower than the recovery rate, but with the DW7000 and above, the uploads are higher. I've never seen an upload FAP so i doubt there is, but some say there is.

LOL...now you know how us Hughesnet folks feel......when our SH!t gets messed up.......................................................and sometimes when it doesnt..........

Im not talking about the features of the player, but more of the quality of the output. A lot of the reviews show it oversaturating the colors. But then again, that can have a lot to do with the encoding of the movies and all that crap too, since a lot of the new movies are encoded in VC-1(prefered by HDDVD), as opposed to MPEG-2(prefered by BluRay)

You don't have to stress your points, as I understand them and agree with them. I never said it would happen anytime soon. I just said in a few years. Im simply looking at what has changed in the last 5 years in internet usage, and data storage. 5 years ago, how much did a 1gig flash drive cost? Now you can get them for 30 bucks or less. 5 years ago where was Vonage? 5 years ago a 16X DVD burner cost how much? Now you can get them for 30 bucks. Where was YouTube, MySpace, GameFly, Steam, and whatever that company is that lets you download movies. Im just saying with the exponential growth of technology these days, will we even care about BluRay or HDDDVD in 6 years?, and what will be it's replacement. Logic is screaming some type of flash card to me. "Experts" are out of touch with reality because all they see is what they want to happen, not what actually will. But ANYWAYS, Blu-Ray will likely win, because of the PS3, and because of Sony Pictures. Although the PS3 bluray does bluray little justice.......

You're right, it's not going to happen over night. But the days of optical and magnetic storage are numbered whether it happens now, or 20 years from now. Just look at how much has changed in 5 years. Look at how the internet is being used compared to 5 years ago. Music is slowly moving more towards the digital format, and movies will follow suit. Television and telephone have also began to shift in this direction. The problem is the slow deployment of broadband across the country. When we are all "connected", you'll see the shift happen. Special bonus DVDs only sell more because it has the word "special" on it. Most people just watch the movie, and that's it, unless ofcourse it's something you are a huge fan of. (like behind the scenes porn lol) Back to the topic: I don't give a flying crap either way, cause I aint buying either one until one of them becomes the standard.

Its all the extra BS they put on DVDs that makes them so big. All anyone wants is the movie, and maybe the deleted scenes. A 1080P movie could hit 20Gigs, depending on how long it is. I said a few years, not a couple. The advantages of the flash chips are longevity, read/write access, security, less moving parts, cheaper (will be soon anyways). It's just part of the natural progression of data storage.

From what I understand, visually, the HD-DVD looks better than the Blu-Ray, as the Blu-ray over saturates colors. But, the main reason Blu-Ray might win is because of all the companies owned and supported by Sony Pictures. In a few years, all the movies will be on flash drives, or downloaded.

That sounds like a polarization/transponder mismatch...... Degraded usually means 2 things. Either Web Acceleration is down, or TCP acceleration is down. This can be caused by almost anything. Water in the feedhorn, cable connector corrosion, bad PS, bad xmitter. The best thing to do is check everything on your setup before calling. If you notice water in the feedhorn, call support and have them replace it. They might tell you to cut a slit or poke a hole in it(which is what I did), but insist that they replace it. In your case, it sound like it could be a transmitter grounding issue. The clue is that when you restart the modem, it clears up. If the transmitter is not grounded properly, it will have static buildup and screw with your system. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/2626 Check the top right graphic....

What modem do you have? It it is a DW6000, DW7000, or HN7000s, then there are no tweaks for the OS. If you are using FireFox, you can tweak the browswer to help a little bit. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite/4._Speed_Tweaks#11316

I do know they are updating things at the NOCs this week so that might be affecting you. I have had connection problems this week as well. I would work though it this week and wait to see how it performs in a few days. If it continues, then I would call Hughes. You get a little more clout when you are on a busniess plan anyways.

The main reason to upgrade to a DW7000, (don't go to a HN7000s, its a f*ckin waste of money), is a much more improved browsing experience. This is in part due to the web acclerator processing on the modem, and due to lower ping times. I average about 300ms lower latency going from a 6k to a 7k. Pinging www.testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=776ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=796ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=801ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=861ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=841ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=771ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=861ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=721ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=811ms TTL=47 Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=811ms TTL=47 Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85: Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 721ms, Maximum = 861ms, Average = 805ms

I have the static ip, so I have port 6346 manually forwarded to my machine. I use the lowest upload speed possible. Luckily, I hardly ever upload anything. I guess it's because of connection timeouts when people connect to me, I dunno. I set the download bandwidth to max though.

Oh and Welcome to the Forum.

If you are on a DW7000, the static IP is $20 extra per month, and that is the ONLY way to speed them up. However, it is evident to me that Torrents are being toggled on the Hughes network, because I can connect to peers, but not seeders. So my files never finish. Your best bet for P2P is to use Shareaza, or Frostwire. Frostwire works great, and doesn't require the static IP. And FYI, you can forward any ports or anything like that without the static IP service.

If you are going to use torrents on Hughesnet, you are going to have to purchase the static IP service. You cannot accept the incoming connections that BT requires without a static IP service. Without it, your speeds will be horrible. THen again, your speeds will be horrible on BT no matter what. Also, the best program for bit torrents to use on Hughesnet is "BitTorrent", or UTorrent. Azureus will not work, and hasn't for quite some time. Make sure that you are aware of FAP (Fair Access Policy) as well. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite/2._General_Information#4496

Complain all ya want, just don't copy and paste the same complaint over and over again in different threads.

Im not sure how it would work. The HTTP requests still work the same. I suppose that it doesn't download them. That's an interesting question.

"Advanced" turbo page config is always disabled. As long as it's set to "auto select", your turbo page should be working. You are right about it being a proxy, but it serves another purpose. A normal proxy would just connect you to a web site or network, while the Hughes Web Accelerator (turbo page) actually downloads and stores the page for you, then zips it up like a zip file and downloads it to your modem. Then the modem "unzips" it back into a normal web page and sends it to your computer. It's a bit more complicated than that, but thats the jist of it. The is necessary because of the latency involved with Satellite (500ms+). If your browser had to download each little part of the website seperately, it could take a very long time to browse the web. You might notice this effect when you see advertisements on web pages, because they often are the last thing to load on a web page when using Hughes. This is because it's pulling the "gif" file, or the flash advertisement from another site. So it has to connect to that site, bundle the file, download it to your modem, ect.... So instead of taking 500ms+ to download each part of a web page, it takes about 2 seconds to "burst" the whole page down to your browser. Secure sites cannot go through this proxy because of the encryption involved. Therefore secure sites load really slowly. So withough "turbo page", browsing would be worse than dialup.....much much much worse... Im starting to think I know way to much about this crap......