kcity04

I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this thread. I have the answer i needed and additional information more than i had expected. I will have to stick with satellite for the foreseable future unless i move back to town (austin, tx). Then i could consider cable or dsl. maybe there is BPL in my future. Thanks again. Just a note it was the DW support personnel who directed me to testmy.net to test my upload speed, so i guess we can't say they were completely clueless.

so you are saying 6Kbps upload on this connection is to be expected?

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Here are the results from the DW "satellite speed test" on 10/30/04; Here are some of the details on my system satmex05, longitude 117 West, 1130MHz, Signal Strength 86 (0-100) I ran the speed test and got these results . ** Speed 610(down)/170(up) kbps ** (At least 18 times faster than a 33 kbps modem)

I've been using direcway satellite (dw6000) for about 1 year now. My upload speeds over the last week or so have fallen way down. Originally, I was getting in the 100Kbps uploads, which I could certainly live with, but now I'm at 6Kbps for uploads. Download speed is still "acceptible". I'm in a rural location and won't be getting dsl or cable this decade. I first noticed the problem when using the DW "satellite speed test". The upload portion of the test just didn't run. I called support and they were not much help. In fact, they directed me to testmy.net to try the upload test there rather than address their problem. When the testmy.net stats showed the slow upload speed, DW support fell back to plan B. "Its probably weather conditions in your area.", or, "Thats really what you should expect"!! Anybody have any insight into why the upload speeds at DW would have dropped recently? Here is my last test .. Upload Stats .. Connection is 6 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 386 KB) Upload Speed is 1 KB/s Tested From http//www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line 0 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 1024 second(s) Validation Link http//testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=L6EMIH1CR .. Download Stats .. Connection is 720 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 386 KB) Download Speed is 88 KB/s Tested From http//www.testmy.net/ Bottom Line 13 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 11.64 second(s) Validation Link http//testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=Y1EP1WJQX KC.