Guest Tedzepplin Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 Hi Everyone! Has anyone else been having problems with DirecPC in the past few days? I am so frustrated with my speed, which has been very good since used the tweak guide, that I almost diedof old age waiting for this forum to load! I am on the satellite Horizons 1 for all you techies, I have emptied my cache, the temp folder, done a complete spyware and virus scan, and nothing shows up. I turned off my Firewall, and disconnected from my router to plug directly into the modem from my PC, just in case there is a bottleneck issue with a bad router. My machine is as clean as a whistle! My games are running just fine, such as Prey, Civ 4, and Half-Life Episode 1, but as for World of Warcraft, I might as well hang it up. Normally I do have around 900 latency on Warcraft, but that is to be expected on a satellite connection. Anyhow, here is the last speed test results I recieved from the download test. If it's just a temporary glitch that other people are experiencing, I will deal with it, but if it's not, I wonder what the heck is wrong... :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 14 Kbps about 0.01 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/27 - 1:35am Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 512 sec Tested from a 97 kB file and took 54.609 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 1.35 % of your hosts average (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-I03GNK4YU User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] I hope this isn't my modem, I just paid those thieves big bucks 2 months ago for the DW 7000! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deven Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 2482 Kbps about 2.48 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 303 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/27 - 5:26am Bottom Line:: 43X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.38 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 9.875 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 139.58 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-IOLGM4DCZ User Agent:: Opera/9.00 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) [!] I haven't noticed any problems. I'm on g11 with 4000, so don't know much. Your speed looks like fap to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 27, 2006 CID Share Posted July 27, 2006 Welcome to the forum Tedzepplin Games and fap. Have you touched the end of your modem cable with your finger tip for at least 10 seconds? To ground static and reset modem! Page loading is fine here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t1wireless Posted July 28, 2006 CID Share Posted July 28, 2006 Im doing as good as i can on a dw4000 but my signal strength is only like 68 im to lazy to repoint my dish right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 28, 2006 CID Share Posted July 28, 2006 That is not to bad t1wireless I am on 57 signal strength myself. I am doing OK. But if I have them repoint it I am going to mount it on a pole next time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tedzepplin Posted July 28, 2006 CID Share Posted July 28, 2006 Hello Again! OK, this is strange, today I have "normal: speed, at least for downloads, haven't tried the uploads test yet. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1151 Kbps about 1.15 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 141 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/07/28 - 2:12am Bottom Line:: 20X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 7.26 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 21.296 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 11.21 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-1DIFM5LWV User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] Someone will have to clarify what "fap" means, because if I have it, I don't know if thats good or bad, LOL ! Anyhow, I cannot explain the recent changes in my connection, although I know sometimes foul weather can really mess with a satellite connection, but the past few days have been very clear. It may have been an "upper atmosphere anomaly" like DirecPC told me, but who could ever prove them right or wrong with a reason such as that one? I say Art Bell is right, and it was some alien craft that used the satellite as a tie-off buoy for a few days while he harassed some farmers out here in the mid-west (like me)! Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply, I appreciate your efforts. Tedzepplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 28, 2006 CID Share Posted July 28, 2006 Not technically speaking but if you D/L or U/L a certain amout you have used up a certain amount of the allowed bandwidth. So they drop your speeds down for a certain amount of time. Then after a certain amount of alotted time your speeds go back up. Here you go, read here. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/4496 http://www.copperhead.cc/fap.htm http://www.connectedhomemag.com/Networking/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=25382 Even one for Wild Blue, just in case. http://www.wildblue.com/legal/fair.jsp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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