mbeer Posted July 14, 2007 CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hi everyone! Just found this site yesterday and have been doing alot of reading. I have been doing some speed tests and cannot believe the awful stats I am getting. The first download test I did was last night at about 3pm EST and that was AWFUL! I know it was not a good time to test. My download connection at that time was only 519 kbps, my download speed was (ouch) only 63 kb/s only 9x faster than dial up! This morning my speeds were a bit better but still only running at 77.35% of the average and I posted them below. My DW7000 satellite system info is as follows: Longitute: 93W - Recieve Frequency: 1046MHz, Recieve Symbol Rate: Msps, Transmit Radio: 1 Watt. So...is there anything I can do to help speed up my situation? Should I call Hughes? (Looks like that would get me no where by reading the forum) Any of your expert advise would be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nos7667 Posted July 14, 2007 CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 What plan do you have w/ Hughes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 14, 2007 CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 If that is the home plan, that is pretty good. If not well it needs work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbeer Posted July 14, 2007 Author CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hi, thanks for your response. I currently have the Home plan. I was considering an upgrade to the Pro but was not sure if it would be worth the extra $20 bucks a month or not or if it would even make that big of a difference. Do you think it would be best to use the Pro plan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted July 14, 2007 CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 Depends on your use, I myself never wanted to increase my time with hughes. So since I was geetting speeds like you, I just used it till times got better and now something better finally arrived. So what do you do with it? I surfed well with the home plan, and D/L's weren't bad. U/L sucked though. Of course I only had a 500/50 home plan. So what speeds are yours supposed to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdawnaz Posted July 14, 2007 CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 welcome to the forum mbeer enjoy ur stay...stay long...come back often... i just popped in here real quick to let u know...u said that ur a "newbie"...here at testmy.net there is no such animal...as a matter of fact it's a dirty word around here...we have the less experienced (u and me) and we have the more experienced (everyone else) if u stay around here long enough...once again i'll be in the first category all by myself again (i like it in there...i get i meet so many nice new people) so like i said hearty welcome to u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbeer Posted July 14, 2007 Author CID Share Posted July 14, 2007 Thank you for the warm welcome tdawnaz! Well then...I fall into the less experienced catagory for sure! I am getting a new high seed laptop next week to replace my old dinasour and I am just trying to get my act together and make sure my satellite is running as well as it can. I sure appreciate any help anyone can give me that is for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
granpa Posted July 15, 2007 CID Share Posted July 15, 2007 I am getting a new high seed laptop next week to replace my old dinasour and I am just trying to get my act together and make sure my satellite is running as well as it can. I sure appreciate any help anyone can give me that is for sure! If you don't belong to the Actor's Guild then try here; http://www.dslreports.com/faq/satellite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbeer Posted July 15, 2007 Author CID Share Posted July 15, 2007 granpa - Thanks for the link, I am cheking it out now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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