My family lives in, not really the middle of no where but, outside of the city (Texas). The towns on both sides of us both have DSL but no, for some reason we dont have that or Cable. So, of course weve been using Dialup the last 6 years (wow). So anyways we decided to check out this Satellite Internet, and we chose Direcway since they offer the 99 a month instead of the 600 at one time.
We tried installing with 2 different people. The first ones seemed like people who would scam you, which they did try to charge an addition 100 dollars for nothing. The second people came to our house on a day where the temperature was at about 14 Degrees (F). So they come, look around for 2 seconds and say our view isnt that clear, and they leave. A weak later, called some other local people, and bam the next day they came. A guy did the "site survey" and then later came back to Install It.
Installation went smoothly, took him and 2 others about 3 hours. He plugged up the modem ( I like the blue lights lol ) and then connected it to my laptop. And we tested a few sites...it seemed like sluggish (you click wait wait wait then it goes, almost like dialup) But anyways so he says it works and blah blah blah and hes gone.
One of the first things I do is go to testmy.net! I didnt get a chance to copy the results but I
remember my download speed. It said I was downloading at 7kbps!!!#!#@!$@$ I was like OMG, thats not even 2 times better than dialup!!!
I decided to download a song in limewire. It worked pretty good I suppose average speed was about 40kbps downloading which is alot better than my 5 on dialup.
I have some question....How come it says my download speed is so slow....here I just ran a test
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Connection is:: 313 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Download Speed is:: 38 kB/s
Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2)
Test Time:: Tue Dec 13 2005 16:33:41 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB download in 26.95 sec
Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 33.69 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com)
Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FL6HBYD5I
How come its not with other people on here around like 150 kb/s? and some even around 250?
I know this is alot but I would greatly appreciate the help...Thanks