albagen Posted January 13, 2007 CID Share Posted January 13, 2007 Does anybody uses Hughes net satellite in Linux? If yes, does a Linux environment accepts any kind of Tweaks or everything is managed within the modem? Blendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted January 13, 2007 CID Share Posted January 13, 2007 What modem do you have? It it is a DW6000, DW7000, or HN7000s, then there are no tweaks for the OS. If you are using FireFox, you can tweak the browswer to help a little bit. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite/4._Speed_Tweaks#11316 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albagen Posted January 13, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 13, 2007 I have a DW 4000 but I'm talking of having the server in Linux, to manage the LAN. Nobody will work in the server, it will be just a server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdawwg1 Posted January 14, 2007 CID Share Posted January 14, 2007 I had a DW4000 system for several years. I can tell you that you can't use the Linux server to receive internet from your modem. The software is written only for Windows. You can use a Windows machine to receive your connection, then put a switch in line to go to your Linux server, but that would be defeating your purpose. Your best bet would be to upgrade to the HN7000s, it has a self hosted modem, that you can hook directly to your Linux server and manage your network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albagen Posted January 14, 2007 Author CID Share Posted January 14, 2007 I'm already doing that bigdawwg1, have XP to host DW4000 and then a Linux machine. But if I upgrade to DW4200, a modem is added to the two existing ones and I can, then, remove the XP computer and connect directly to the Linux machine. What I'm asking (if anybody had such an experience, of course), is that in this scenario (DW4200---Linux) is there any tweaks to be done if the line gets down, or everything is managed by DW? What can you say about your experience with DW4000, bigdawwg1, is there anything to tweak in the DW software installed on XP environment? Have you tried any tweaks there or just tweaks on the XP? If I upgrade to HN7000s, is there any tweaks for it, inside the box? I have the 4000 since 18 months, but since I found this forum 2-3 months ago I started to tweak XP (I was just newbie then and now I'm a tweaking expert:P) and learned a lot of things. If somebody is interested on my experience: the XP computer with DW4000 needs constantly tweaks, almost full time care. I got a 512/128 line and usually when I tweak it constantly I get 512 and up (my record, i guess, 1mbit). Only this afternoon something strange happened, for about 3-4 hours the line was at 7-15 kilobit, then came back to normal. God knows why (apart DW... Anyway, cheers and thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdawwg1 Posted January 15, 2007 CID Share Posted January 15, 2007 I can't answer your questions about the DW4200 because I have no experience with it. I had the DW4000 system for about 5 years and had some bad service, and some really good service with it. The last couple of months before I upgraded, my speeds were very low. I did some research to find that the popular opinion is that Hughes is doing a lot of load balancing, and in turn caused the load on the bird and transponder I was on to be very high. I also feel it's only a matter of time before Hughes phases out the service for DW3000 &4000 customers. (I actually got this from a Tier4 tech support guy). As far as tweaks, I used DRTCP, which you can download from http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp Antother good forum to go to learn about Hughesnet Satellite is http:/www.dslreports.com/forum/sat They have a world of info about all the systems Hughes has. They have a section called Satellite FAQ - Tweaks and Tips that is very helpful. http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwells248 Posted January 16, 2007 CID Share Posted January 16, 2007 Here are a few linux tweaks. http://dsd.lbl.gov/TCP-tuning/linux.html I think these represent most of the tweaks you can do to a linux machine. Depending on your linux kernel version, it basically tunes itself, with a little help from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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