sparky

Yeah, we have no verizon towers, we have no alltell service period. I just went to Sprints website and it states the cap on signup, I was about to do it until I seen that. 5GB a month is worse then Hughesnet, having better speed will just get me there faster. You know its a sad thing to say, but the USA broadband system is going from bad to worse, we should be one of the leading countries with broadband, yet India and other countries are leaving us behind.... so sad.

What is interesting is, Hughesnet are offering greater speeds to the user who want to pay for it, but at our cost, they do not have the bandwidth for us scummy people now, how do they give more to others without affecting the low end users?

No, not FAP'd, thats an easy check now, just goto the webpage for the modem and it tells you. I have 1 EVDO provider and that is Ntelos, they do not have good speeds and a 5 gig a month limit, not sure if they enforce the limit or not, Sprint does now have evdo around here, they must be using the Ntelos network. Ntelos and Sprint both have the 5 gig cap, but sprint want to charge you 2 cent's a Mb overages with a 2 year contract. AT&T has nothing here. Verizon has nothing here. US Cellular has nothing here. A Town with 28,000 students and nothing of any use! what is up with that?

This mornings test... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 909 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB) Download Speed is:: 111 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/23 - 8:11am Bottom Line:: 16X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 9.23 sec Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 27.599 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 91.54 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ID5G7R906 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!]

Already there man, already there!

Your telling me I would have to pay them to move me to another bird just because they oversold the one I am on now? That is not going to happen, I would rather shut the service down again then pay hughesnet another dime then I am now.

I am starting to see a pattern now, its a bottleneck issue, Hughes is overloading this bird I am on, what ever it is, I think it is Horizons1.... not sure anymore, anyone know how to tell?

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 271 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB) Download Speed is:: 33 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/22 - 6:58pm Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 31.03 sec Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 92.459 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 27.26 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-T7MC3QSG8 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!]

I don't think I used the smart test, I went straight for the 1Mb file..... It was not the test that was inaccurate, my speed was down badly, pages had trouble loading, when they did it could take over 1 minute to load and so forth.

Too many questions at once..... lol.... Ok, here is this mornings results... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 938 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Download Speed is:: 115 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/22 - 7:13am Bottom Line:: 16X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 8.9 sec Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 8.844 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 94.37 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-67XJ2WQTC User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!] Not bad but still a little slower then normal. Unsure, I used to know but can't remember, damn old age.... I did it myself this past summer, I was unable to get a stronger signal strength higher then 70. One thing I did notice, when I was adjusting the dish every time I put my hands on the back of the dish the signal would go up by around +10, I was thinking about going up with some aluminum foil and contact adhesive spray fixing it to the rear of the dish, I still may try this when it warms up just to see if it will help any. Have any of you tried this yet?

Humming along as normal.....

Heres the latest one... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 272 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Download Speed is:: 33 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/21 - 7:47pm Bottom Line:: 5X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 31.03 sec Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 30.557 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 27.36 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-QNBDHTZKC User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!]

I said the same thing to my wife, Hughesnet $75 a month, Dial up $9 a month, and dial up would be more reliable.... lol The said thing is, I don't care, I am not going to talk to India to go around in circles and listen to there crap! LMAO...... it got a little faster since, they are over selling these birds to the point of a standstill.

My speeds have been on the downward spiral for weeks now. Here is what I am getting on the download.... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 75 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Download Speed is:: 9 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/11/21 - 5:35pm Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 113.78 sec Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 111.234 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 7.55 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Z1YXVDS4C User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 [!] Beat that if you can, (Dial ups not allowed). $75 a month for this? I am not FAP'd, it is 6:43Pm as I type this 29 seconds for this webpage to load, signal strength is 70 clear weather. LMAO! I love Hughesnet, So glad I am not in a contract, so not so glad there is no other option for me! MotherF*#$#@'s

Hot Dog... I can only dream of them speeds..... Now be off with you. You have some serious Online Gaming to catch up on. Happy for you dude....

Congrats! We are all happy for you, I most of us are the same way, if it was not for Hughesnet we may not have come here! Enjoy your DSL, have fun...... Now the waiting is over for you!

This is true, but if you want the correct drivers and default software that came with your comp, well worth it

What brand PC is it? you could call the manufacturer and ask for the recovery disks, they should send some to you. Mine is an HP and HP tell me if I cannot make a recovery set from the recovery drive, they will send me some, worth a try?

Why don't you try system restore then look for the virus using an updated version of Symantec, I did mine yesterday after finding a virus on my system. Works great now. Type in system restore in the find bar.

Personally I would never commit to another contract with Hughesnet, I intend to pay them no more then I am now. I kinda figure, if I did upgrade, DSL or Cable would come the next day! You know how it goes. In the long run, if that is something you want to do, pay more for a little more speed, then good luck to you, me, I am never going to upgrade, I can't wait to put it out of my window when other options come knocking.

Anyone have some bug spray, seems we are getting overrun with ants and things!

Well I am certainly not going with nTelos, customer service is poor, no knowledge and slow, the service is slow and they cap it at 5gb a month with would be about 130mb a day, not worth $59.99 a month, I will stick with the junk I have now, at least I am not in a contract with Hughes. Ohh, nTelos require a 2 year contract.

Sprint huh? I think they use 1x rtt, not sure if they are EVDO right now, I will look into that. Thanks.

I got the DW6000.

I am wondering what peoples speeds are, I just ran mine around 1.00am and I got some good speeds for the basic Hughesnet package. Here :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 160 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB) Upload Speed is:: 20 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/10/06 - 10:58pm Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 51.2 sec Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 51.759 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 12.68 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-I7G8FSY6V User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 [!]