zalternate

Then installer needs a little black box to properly do a Internet satellite dish install.

The box tells him what satellite he's pointing at and to allow for proper peaking.

Now when a user calls in to support, to diagnose speed problems.... The support agent 'should' be pulling up the users dish on the screen and check alignment numbers. And also making sure that if the numbers are low, is there is not a big black cloud pizzing out hail stones in the path of the beam, via weather confirmation by the user or a online satellite radar map also showing the NOC's weather.

But thats a perfect world. Instead many have posted about first being made to waste time(hours/days) with all sorts of stuff, blaming the users computer, before that thought may even be tried. It would be nice if the agent were allowed by WildBlue to say that the beam/NOC is at maximum capacity, and speeds will be degraded at PrimeTime for the foreseeable future.

Before someone calls in, they should reboot the modem and computer. And by-pass the router, by plugging the computer straight into the modem.

And this sites speed test does give a time of the test. A new user thinking of a satellite Internet service should look for that time. As a evening speed test time may show a major slowdown compared to the early morning speed test.

And the funniest thing support says to users? "Well surf in the middle of the night, if the evening is so slow."  But people only need 4 hours of sleep a night, right?  Oh I know. Come home from work and eat dinner. Have a nap afterwards till 11pm and then surf for three or 4 hours.  

just did speed tests put image in my signature, are these acceptable for the pro package?

I think your system is broken. 

Since your download speed in the early am hours is twice the speed that the home Pro package(1.5Mbps) is supposed to be. The upload speed is normal.

Global Gaming Factory. Ha Ha Ha.

What a mess. Bankruptcy to be declared soon. Seems one of the executives that quit, wants to get paid and gaming Factory is broke. Especially since that stock market scam trying to raise their worth. Or is it good for a company to get de-listed from the stock market?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/172230/prospective_pirate_bay_buyer_faces_bankruptcy_proceedings.html

So the moral of the story? Host your site in Russia. And have a very trustworthy shill person there as CEO and owner.  Many companies the world over do it in some form like this or another.

With some of the big companies out there..... Who is the actual owner? Other than a bunch of suits steering the company. And the derelict owner claims ignorance when the executives do illegal shiat.

You hear that Tommie! :2funny:

So that company called DigiProtect may be operating illegally(at least in Germany). There is something called a 'cap on lawyers fee's'. So if the company is saying their lawyers 'share' in the profits from each successful notice they send out. There would have to be a cap on the amount the lawyer could make in each extortion letter that is successful, in collecting funds..

One comment on the site says the IRS of whichever country, may be really interested in DigiProtects lawyers 'detailed' Tax Returns.

Meanwhile. Who is really responsible for leaking unreleased content online? Is it the CopyRight Industry to generate money via user notices? Or is it a company employee, who works at the CD/DVD content burning company.

http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfit-and-lawyers-may-operate-illegally-090919/

Anti-Piracy Outfit and Lawyers May Operate Illegally

Written by enigmax on September 19, 2009

Last month TorrentFreak reported on DigiProtect, the anti-piracy company with the tagline

Oh right.

Now I recognize the form of writing of the first post.

If you check the IP, it most probably comes from India.

An Interesting little organic bot.

Edit. To report speeds in Mbps is an insult to dialup users or people with slow connections.  Oh Google. You are so funny this morning. 

Weird thread......... I just got up so.......

You add a decimal point to get  Mbps per second,,,, Right?

So like with tdawnaz test showing..... 11794 Kbps ,,,,, Add a decimal point and Ta Da.... 11.794 Mbps............ 

If its like when the Wildblue tech came out to check my system, wouldn't ya know it was running at or above my plan "gold".  There was not a problem with the system the entire time he was here.

Thats been noted in various posts on the Internet. Either the installer shows up in the am to correct the problem. "Oh look. great speeds. Nothing wrong here".

Or the satellite service provider turns up the customers 'base line' speeds, for the technical testing time. Or simply, everyones speeds float with the amount of users online. So a override is enacted for several hours or 24 hours. Then speeds drop back to floating mode. Kinda like the providers with the 30 day guarantee and then the speeds drop from a certain preset to floating mode around the 30 days end time.  The 30 day drop doesn't happen to everyone supposedly, but then again, who checks their speeds for a couple of months and more, from the install?   Squeezing every drop out of dialup made us people who check their speeds and know what times are slow or fast..

You could see these type of speed settings for a corporate customer who needs a certain speed all the time and will pay for it. So their speeds will not drop below a certain speed or their speed may stay at one speed(1500Kbps 24/7).

Well hopefully the newish satellite will be more high speed.  Unless they over sell before the next one in 2012.

Hughesnet would love to get the customers off of the old KU satellites, but there is the cost of subsidizing units.

But there is always that magic switch at Hughesnet that can shut off the service to all the KU's. Leaving it to the customer to upgrade at their own cost.    Well since service is not guaranteed and all that bullshiat in the contract, that doesn't have a chance in court. 

Oh look. A wiki on tm.net.my

And an excerpt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM_Net

Criticism of TM Net

TM Net has been criticised locally on a range of issues. This section outlines some of the criticisms faced by TM Net. Many people have complained of its poor services.

Slower speed and reliability

TM Net subscribers have complained about slow speeds and the general lack of reliability of connections provided. However TM Net

With the speed test I just did that was on your ISP's site...Well at least the ping is right..My download speed is about 5200Kbps and about 800Kbps in upload, to any other site on the web that has proper bandwidth....

I don't know if there is help. How is the speed test for you from your ISP site. Note that your ISP may fudge(as in a user to server test) the speeds that show up in the test, as the speed may not enter the Internet to be tested.  I am not sure if they may be throttling connections through their server, to max out at a certain speed and ignoring the customers package rate.

Anyone got any tweaks?

i have done all check up every week on my pc but the connection still the same.

here is my result

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::

Download Connection is:: 173 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 507 kB)

Download Speed is:: 21 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/09/17 - 2:21am

Bottom Line:: 3X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 48.76 sec

Tested from a 507 kB file and took 23.953 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 34.33 % of your hosts average (net.my)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-6P73YGDFS

User Agent:: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00

How are you connected to the Internet? DSL. Wireless. Cable.

And is there a webpage for your service provider?

pls give me the link wher you found the picture. sorry me bad english

The reflector dish has a base of satellite technology. And the dish has had mounts modified to work with the terrestrial wireless system. 

If you had a satellite dish that was half the size that they are now, you'd get a real crappy signal. With the Motorola Canopy SM, the various frequencies have certain ranges that they can be set up at for maximum distance.

The dish is for line of sight use.

I love Google Images.

Dish

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=motorola+dish&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Dish

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=motorola+reflector+dish&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

Stinger

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=motorola+stinger&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

What does it mean when the technicians of smartbro says you have low power? They are advising me to add another 10ft pole to my existing 20ft pole. that would be another 680 pesos for them.  

Are there other ways I could increase my power? This could lessen the request timed outs I keep getting.

thanks.

Low power = maybe low signal strength.  Reflector dish or stinger may be better to use.Stinger for a pole mounted SM.

Raising pole means something is blocking the signal like leafs on the tree's? Or the Fresnel zone is causing a reflection that distorts the signal. If raising the pole would solve the problem. But I doubt they would guarantee the poles cost if it does not improve your signal.

Heres a real world test from someones post,,, starting at post.....

http://www.testmy.net/t-21564.msg313501#msg313501

, showing how the beams/NOC's are oversubscribed causing slowdowns.

--------------------------------------------

Here's my speed & it's about 4 mins till 2 here's my download

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. Download Stats ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Download Connection is:: 1794 Kbps about 1.8 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 219 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/'>https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/09/15 - 12:55pm

Bottom Line:: 31X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.68 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 13.992 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 102.48 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/'>https://testmy.net/stats/id-IY260PQEU

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14

Well it's now 8:30 & my speed is about right where I said it was a little higher tho here's my speed test

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.. testmy.net test results ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Download Connection is:: 222 Kbps about 0.22 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)

Download Speed is:: 27 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 105 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 13 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/09/15 - 7:29pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/'>https://testmy.net/stats/id-9V1EW2PBO

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/'>https://testmy.net/stats/id-WIEVR439U

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14

-----------------------------------------------------------------

So simply, does your speeds start to drop at a known, repeatable time. And then does your speeds near the end of the slowdown, speed back up within about a half hour?  

If you had a equipment problem, you would notice the slowdowns all day or intermittently.

A failing TRIA(thing at end of the dish) may die during the time that the sun heats it up directly, during the day.

Tria dissembled link.. This tria is an older model that has water leakage problems.

http://oceanfalls.org/misc/trias/trias.html

If your dish was out of alignment, then you would experience slow speeds all the time and rain would disrupt your signal.

Support will delay you or blame your perfectly functioning computer on what are actually WildBlue system slowdowns. Or blame you and delay you until you stop wasting your precious time calling them week after week.

Seems the BBB has revoked WB's accreditation. I was thinking of switching to WB but have decided to go with a re-point to Spaceway3 at no cost to me instead. The more I read about WB the worse it sounds.

You'd think that a year and a half, would be plenty of time for WildBlue to fix things to comply with the BBB. But no such chance yet.

And with Hughesnet and the 'free' satellite change to the SpaceWay3 and new KA band equipment... It probably will give you a new two year contract as well. Some people upgrade for free from the DW modems to the HN modems and stay on the old satellites and don't notice that 'free' meant a new contract. And boy does the customer get pizzed about it. The KU satellites are a weekly flip of the coin for speeds.

And at least two more years till WildBlues next satellite to relieve the nightmare of congestion.

@zalternate

pal do you have more details how to set that thing up. that one with the dish. does that really help?

I don't have anymore details, You'd have to Google it.

What it does is focus the beam more. Some ISP's are starting to deploy them(the big dish) more, to give the people on the edge of reach a better/stronger signal. People do like them.

And you WildBlue users will be glad that WildBlue has won a World Wide award..... That has nothing to do with customer service or the customers speeds.

http://wildblue.com/company/doPressReleaseDetailsAction.do?pressReleaseID=64

WildBlue Communications was honored as "Broadband Satellite Operator of the Year" last week at the World Satellite Business Week, an annual satellite industry event. The award is based on criteria involving subscriber growth, top line revenue growth, overall profitability and brand recognition, and is determined by a jury of industry experts from Euroconsult, Space News, and Satellite Finance. This is the second time WildBlue has won the award in the last three years.

.................... "WildBlue is extremely pleased and honored to receive this award," said David Leonard, CEO of WildBlue Communications. "Our focus has been on one thing only-providing affordable, reliable broadband service to customers in the rural U.S. It's a testament to the hard work of our entire team to be recognized for our efforts." .............

Well it's now 8:30 & my speed is about right where I said it was a little higher tho here's my speed test

So any mathematicians here that can calculate just how much 'percentage' of users oversold, that Beam or NOC is?  

From

Download Connection is:: 1794 Kbps about 1.8 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 219 kB/s

To

Download Connection is:: 222 Kbps about 0.22 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)

Download Speed is:: 27 kB/s

If ya really want to tick off the masses......  

First time post's have to be 'Approved' by the moderator first, up to 4 posts. But with so many 1 or 2 post members, it is a pain in the off times.  

Some places delay the ability to do a first post, until the new member's membership is moderator approved. And that is above the valid email confirmation. It's nice to have a notice display as well, to tell the new member of the delay.

It slows down the organic bots a wee bit.

I've got a new speed test here's my download

I'm actually surprised about my download usually it's a lot lower then that but it's like a little after noon here so yea must be off peak hrs.

The important speed test is usually between about 7pm to 9pm.  Since thats the time most people are home and the main slow down.

And if the satellite system starts to slow down about 2pm, then it's time to avoid trying to surf the Internet that evening.

So are you getting 'dropped packets' when connecting to the tower? via normal surfing. And if your tower is swaying, you can also get dropped packets.

Align your antenna better or maybe you need a stinger or reflector dish to increase signal strength.

But post two PM's in less than a minute "BAM".

Well it helps slow you down by making you wait one minute between posts/PM's. 

If you log in and wait just over 1 minute(60 seconds) before posting , any change?

This was noted a couple of weeks ago. As there is a delay after logging in before you can post. So helps deter bots. Keep trying to post and the timer resets.

Oh look. You can download Pirated pr0n, but not upload it.

http://torrentfreak.com/porn-studios-set-to-target-65000-movie-uploaders-090912/

In July many adult movie studios filed a copyright complaint against 10,000 alleged porn uploaders. The producers wanted a large number of convictions but were disappointed when prosecutors went after just 10 individuals. The studios have responded by reporting another 65,000 file-sharers and demanding action.

story continues.....................