HUGHESNET HN9000 SLOWDOWN / HOST CHANGE

[fikester]

The HN9000 is slowing down again in the evening.....still at advertised "typical" speeds, but they must be adding more customers than bandwidth available. So again three steps forward two steps back?

I also noticed  they are tweaking with the firmware again, then rolled it back.

[lumberjack88]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 1993 Kbps about 2 Mbps (tested with 4096 kB)

Download Speed is:: 243 kB/s

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

Test Time:: 2009/11/05 - 8:16pm

Bottom Line:: 35X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.21 sec

Tested from a 4096 kB file and took 16.833 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 125.45 % faster than the average for host (direcway.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Y7I584GQE

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729) [!]

[lumberjack88]

I havnt been on much the past few days but everything seems to be okay here.I think my firmware is the same.

[fikester]

For me last two or three evenings about 7pm est it has slowed down to around 800kbps......? The firmware was changed this morning on mine. Still way better than before. Seems back to normal now:

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 2183 Kbps about 2.2 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 266 kB/s

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

Test Time:: 2009/11/05 - 8:21pm

Bottom Line:: 38X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.85 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 11.498 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 146.95 % faster than the average for host (direcway.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FHE6X9WMI

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.0.30729) [!]

[commtech]

with every gas station and dollar store using hughesnet for their sales transactions its no wonder that the home subscribers have issues. I work in the oilfield and there are several drilling contractors and service companies that use directway with cisco or datastorm routers for transferring real time data stream as well as for voice and fax comm.  I would think that hughes sets aside bandwith for their larger enterprise customers and the single household consumer gets what is left over.  Try a  air card and cell booster and let 7-11 deal with directway when they run your credit card for a cold six pack.

[tommie gorman]

with every gas station and dollar store using hughesnet for their sales transactions its no wonder that the home subscribers have issues. I work in the oilfield and there are several drilling contractors and service companies that use directway with cisco or datastorm routers for transferring real time data stream as well as for voice and fax comm.  I would think that hughes sets aside bandwith for their larger enterprise customers and the single household consumer gets what is left over.  Try a  air card and cell booster and let 7-11 deal with directway when they run your credit card for a cold six pack.

I hear you there, but its not available to everybody. 

[compuguybna]

Most of the sats on top of businesses say DirecWay.  they dont say Hughesnet (although they are both Hughes)

There are also two domains. direcway and direcpc.  I think the stores run off direcpc.

If you're on Spaceway 3, you're in the direcway.com domain

and by looking at the profile of the sat, looks like older KU systems.

I might be wrong, but I dont those run off Spaceway 3.

with every gas station and dollar store using hughesnet for their sales transactions its no wonder that the home subscribers have issues. I work in the oilfield and there are several drilling contractors and service companies that use DirecWay with cisco or datastorm routers for transferring real time data stream as well as for voice and fax comm.  I would think that hughes sets aside bandwidth for their larger enterprise customers and the single household consumer gets what is left over.  Try a  air card and cell booster and let 7-11 deal with DirecWay when they run your credit card for a cold six pack.

[fikester]

The slowdowns in the evening are dipping to around 500-1000Kbps during peak hours, apparently still migrating as many Ku band and new customers to the Ka band as possible? Weather seems to not affect the performance for me unless its a severe cloud burst, currently snow squall with snow in on dish........good signal and good speed:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::

Download Connection is:: 2185 Kbps about 2.2 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 267 kB/s

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

Test Time:: 2009/11/27 - 7:41am

Bottom Line:: 38X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.84 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 11.487 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 146.61 % faster than the average for host (DirecWay.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Z08D9MRP1

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

[tommie gorman]

The slowdowns in the evening are dipping to around 500-1000Kbps during peak hours, apparently still migrating as many Ku band and new customers to the Ka band as possible? Weather seems to not affect the performance for me unless its a severe cloud burst, currently snow squall with snow in on dish........good signal and good speed:

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::

Download Connection is:: 2185 Kbps about 2.2 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)

Download Speed is:: 267 kB/s

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

Test Time:: 2009/11/27 - 7:41am

Bottom Line:: 38X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.84 sec

Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 11.487 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 146.61 % faster than the average for host (DirecWay.com)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Z08D9MRP1

User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDC; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)

Very nice, we used to dream of steady speeds like that. If just most of the day would have been good.

[fikester]

HughesNet...this is a few months old, but the HD NetFlix demo, now thats amusing. The demo forgot to include the FAP? not sure how big an HD movie would be, but surely its over the 200-500Mb cap? 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/11/hughes_satellite_internet_relaunch.html