doc1evans

I just tested my wild blue speed and it was 3x faster than you got. I have noticed it seems to be faster at different times, perhaps that is due to weather. Last November we had a major windstorm and my wildblue service went away. I finally had the techie come out and repoint my dish, which I reinforced against any further storms. Even after he came, my service was totally rotten: I'd be dropped continuously, I had trouble connecting, and I went back to dialup. Wildblue said it was my computer, the modem was connected. I replaced the cables, I replaced the network card, I tried a different computer, I went nuts and I planned to quit wildblue when the contract was up. Then I tried yet a 3rd computer, a new Dell running Vista home. The service was then superb, great speed, the connection wasn't dropped. Then I opened an e-mail with an Adobe attachment. I had not yet installed Adobe. After I did my connection was dropped, I had trouble reconnecting: right back where I was. I uninstalled Adobe and the connection is now fine. The earlier computer was running Windows XP-Pro64. I was told the problem might be flash player, so I had upgraded that. Now I'll put that computer back up and see if it works after I uninstall Adobe. I will miss Adobe, I need it for a number of things. I got an older computer and installed Win98 so I could run older programs. I guess that will also be where I view Adobe files. Anyway, maybe this gives you a couple of things to try. You can call wildblue and they'll tell you if your modem is getting the full signal: the dish has to be very carefully pointed.