luwigie

Is that SDSL? Or a T1? Pretty nice. I have 250KB/s upload here at school via ftp, but it would be nice to have that kind of speed at home!

I have direcway, and I consistantly get 150-200 KB/s. You need to tweak your connection: http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/satellite Unless you are on the pro edition, you are nated. This means that you share your ip address with many other direcway users. Direceway, however, gives you your own IP address when not all of them are being used. This is called being unnated. You will not be able to run a web site or VPN when you are nated, but you will be able to when you are unnated. When you buy the pro edition, you are raising the level of downloads that you can do before you are affected by the FAP, and you are buying your own static IP. If you want more information on the Direcway nat, please read the FAQ or PM me/post here for more specific questions. The pings are terrible because for every packet you send, it has to travel 20,000 miles to the Direcway NOC, and 20,000 miles back to you. Radio signals only travel so fast. Here are some speeds as of right now (SSHed to a Linux box at home, I am currently unnated, so I can access my servers as if I have a real IP):[code:1][root@server1 root]# ping testmy.net PING testmy.net (67.19.36.6) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=836 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=50 time=836 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=50 time=836 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=3 ttl=50 time=776 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=4 ttl=50 time=965 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=5 ttl=50 time=776 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=6 ttl=50 time=836 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=7 ttl=50 time=899 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=8 ttl=50 time=772 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=9 ttl=50 time=772 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=10 ttl=50 time=712 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=11 ttl=50 time=772 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=12 ttl=50 time=773 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=13 ttl=50 time=773 ms 64 bytes from 6.67-19-36.reverse.theplanet.com (67.19.36.6): icmp_seq=14 ttl=50 time=1024 ms --- testmy.net ping statistics --- 16 packets transmitted, 15 received, 6% packet loss, time 15000ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 712.186/824.203/1024.870/80.382 ms, pipe 3 [root@server1 root]#[/code:1] I currently am running 4.2.1.10 I believe. I am using a Windows Server 2003 host and 15 clients (Pretty much all versions of Windows, a UNIX box, and several Linux boxes). I have used Windows XP and Windows 2000 as a host in the past with the same speeds. My average speeds are somewhere around 1500/30, and I will post a speed test when I get to a web browser where I can test here at home. Here is a download, which went much faster than usual (this is not edited text, and is not my normal download rate) [code:1][root@server1 root]# wget http://luwigie.com/tests/test16 --08:43:13-- http://luwigie.com/tests/test16 => `test16' Connecting to 192.168.0.1:83... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 16,777,216 [text/plain] 100%[=================================================================================================================>] 16,777,216 801.42K/s ETA 00:00 08:43:38 (678.12 KB/s) - `test16' saved [16777216/16777216] [root@server1 root]#[/code:1] For better proof, here is a screen shot of that download. Again, this is not my normal speed, and I am really impressed with the speed right now. I wish I was home sick, so I could play with it. edit: (that wget -b is just so it would save the output to a file, so I can see more status about how fast it is downloading, ignore that) Good luck, and let me know if you need any more information/help.

I picked up this issue a couple of days ago. Really interesting. The total came to around 12,600 USD.

I feel bad for you... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4194 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is:: 512 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 75 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=187Q8V1IU This is on a bad day. I have tested at 27/8 on dslreports.com and 14.4/4 here, both mbits/s, (I don't know why there is such a difference).

Easy, lol....

DSL at times can cause static I guess, so filters are put on to rid the line of that static for voice.

Cool, ground control is a VAR for Dway, right? What do you mean you are a former member of DSLR, you know you still lurk in the sat forum, lol. This site rules, but talking specifically about the issues that surround satellite... No offense CA3LE,

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Coax, what cable is, has less signal loss per foot and resistance than what RJ11, telephone wire, does. When you are adding cord on your line, that technically increases your 'loop lenght'. Although generally a few feet never really hurts anything, if you are on the end of the allowable distance for dsl already, then it might. Try to pull everything off of the phone line except the modem and retest. If it's better, plug everything back in and pull things off one by one, test again, and plug it back in if your speeds haven't changed. I think this would be a good idea as this would help you figure out if you are having any interference on the line from another device. Finally, I would do some tweaking. Have you done any tweaking on your computer, or is everything still at the defaults? Good luck. Hope you can get the speeds that you pay for...

What's your upload? Pretty nice speeds! Probably right at your cap, right?

When I go into another part of Michigan where one of my relatives lives, I get about 4000/384 even though the speed is 3000/384. I love going over there because I get to play with decent speeds where no ports are blocked and I don't get in trouble for downloading too much (which I have done at work). I work at a school which is connected to Internet2 though, so that's fun.

By the way, that is fully tweaked. That is just how bad the upload for Direcway is... Maybe CA3LE, you could change the upload test's page approximate times for satellite to be a little longer. If I want to upload anything that is over, oh, 500 KBs, I either dial-up or wait for work. Pitiful, eh?

Aw, ya caught me! I was gonna wait to reveal the secret that that is my work connection until some one asked who my ISP was. If you really want to see what I'm stuck on when I am not at work: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 1235 Kbps about 1.2 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is:: 151 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 22 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 6.78 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=SBYUT2K1F :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is: 19 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 KB) Upload Speed is: 2 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line: 0 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 512 second(s) Validation Link :: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=7OXYSWSTR That upload is all that I usually get... Satellite really sucks, but it's all that I can get out here. Sorry if I annoyed any of you by having a little fun . I would have told you eventually!

Isn't there an actual 'load balancing' service? You might have to go into the network adapters properties and in that list where TCP/IP is located, click on add. If I'm not mistaken, it should be in there. I don't have a W2K machine handy to test that though, sorry.

Isn't the cap for standard road runner 3 mbps? If so, I would say that your download test looks pretty good .

Yep. It's tweaked. On HTTPI have uploaded as fast as 1.1 MB/s so about 8.8mbps. On bittorrent I have actually uploaded at 2.3 MB/s (18.4 mbps) On dslreports' test I am able to show my full upload speed plus a faster download rate of about 22-30 mbps. The fastest that I have ever downloaded in a real world download was about 3MB/s (24 mbps). Here are a couple of examples from DSLR, which I tested on yesterday. 2004-06-25 12:33:10 Speed test @ chi.speakeasy.net 21981/7315 kbps 2004-06-25 12:33:03 Speed test @ chi.speakeasy.net 16744/7907 kbps 2004-06-25 12:32:48 Speed test @ chi.speakeasy.net 22411/7599 kbps 2004-06-25 12:32:27 Speed test @ chi.speakeasy.net 21315/8015 kbps

BTW, I know that I can upload at about 8 mbps, but this test doesn't reflect it for some reason.

:::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 14316 Kbps about 14.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 1748 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line:: 256 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 0.59 second(s) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=LIGH6UGRD :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is: 316 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 KB) Upload Speed is: 39 KB/sec Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line: 6 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 26.26 second(s) Validation Link :: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=NTA1MQX7G