localpeon

Good to have you aboard     

(me)

as someone told all of us at one time or another there are no newbies

I've been lurking in the shadows

Welcome, and have fun.

Glad to have you on board.

kabayo,

Welcome to the neighborhood. I was just looking over the new members area. i do hope I am not the first to welcome you, in either case enjoy your self.

local.peon grin:

Glad you could join us. Welcome

Greeetings neovo,

Welcome to the group, you always learn something here and if not you will get a good laugh or two.

local.peon

Hey Lisa,

I have Wildblue also and if I take my router off I get speeds in excess of !MB, put the router back on and it goes to 400-500kbs. Also I have found out if I test one minute it may be over 1Mbs and the next time two minutes later it is in the 600Kbs. I have called and talked to them and still have not got a god answer. I am looking forward to what they tell you. they have replaced modem three times , wiring twice and the antenna guts three times. It works fine for a couple days and then slowly slides off. Good Luck.

basser-x,

      Welcome to the group.  This is the best!!

local.peon

Thanks zalternate,

I was not aware that went on in the optimization procedure. I appreciate your input.

local.peon  

Thanks tdawnaz,  I appreciate your feedback.  local.peon

Greetings All,

I am on Wild blue bundled through DISH. When I run Test my net for up and down, I consistently get a lower number than either Speakeasy or Speedtest. . Last run was 656Kbs on Test my and 1014 Kbs and 1027Kbs. I believe the Test my net results are more accurate, but why such a large variance?

Thanks for your help,

Have you tried calling tech support for the unit? I have had some issues with a DYNEX n  router, Their support people have been very helpful, very courteous and solved my problems each and every time.

zalternate and tommie gorman,

    Thank you both for the the helpful information. I understand the difference now and am glad to know, at this tier, I am getting good numbers. I will monitor for 30 days and see how it averages, before I decide to go for the higher tier. Again I appreciate the help.

Kind regards,

local.peon

Help.

I am on Dish's Wildblue satellite. I took the lowest tier to see how it would work, since I am way out in the country. So the advertised download speed is 500K and the up is 128K. I have yet to get close to the download speed they are talking about. If I understand the Testmy net narrative after test is run, ( see below)  I am getting a hand shake with wildblue at 507K and a download of data at 62K. I have had Dish Wildblue guy out three times and today they replaced the modem, the cable from modem to antenna and replaced the thing (sorry for this technical term) on the antenna. They have repeatably check the alignment on the antenna and it is as good as they can get it.  I am on a PC with XP 2002 with service pack 3, 1G of RAM, 100 G HD,  I just bought a new IMAC and have ran it on this same connection and get the same kind of speeds.  Any suggestions??

local.peon

(I am posting now but will be signing off for the nite and will check for responses later today.)

Download Stats

Download Connection is:: 507 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 507 kB)

Download Speed is:: 62 kB/s

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

Test Time:: 2008/10/16 - 1:41am

Bottom Line:: 9X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 16.52 sec

Tested from a 507 kB file and took 8.192 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 49.75 % of your hosts average (32.39)

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

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

(Apologies for the length of this and my poor descriptions of some items.)

To:mudmanc4  & ianonline :

Glad to make your acquaintance. Thanks for the welcome.

local.peon

Thank you Coknuck.  , local.peon

Just a note to say "HI", no questions yet,but I am sure I will .

local.peon