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I've had the DW6000 since Dec. 2003, and didn't have too many problems until about a week ago when I noticed that the browsing was very erratic (slow or not working sometimes for extended periods).  When I check the system status, there are non-operational notes for TCP and Web Aceleration statuses.  They sometimes clear on power cycling but the problem recurs.  I called their tech department in India, but they made me waste 30 minutes doing useless things like bypassing my router, clearing the cache, etc.  They transferred me to "advanced" tech support, who placed me on hold for over one hour.  They had me re-register, and it did work for a while, but now I'm having the same problems again.  They deny that the problem is at their end.  Has anyone had any similar problems?

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yea, but ive only had direcway for a little over 2 days now.  My big issue has been with spikes in the connection.  It will be going at a semi decent speed (roughly 70-80 kb/s) then drop down to around 2-3 kb/s.  I got ahold of the district manager of Direct TV (couldnt get through to direcway) and he said that if it is working and installed correctly, I should be able to anihilate the local Charter cable modems.  Im doing good now to break 56k.  Looks like im stuck though, my areas phone lines dont support a faster connection than 28.8k, the cable company has been trying to sell for the last 11 years, so they havent offered any sort of cable modems, and no DSL support.  I either have to settle for Direcway or 28.8k dialup.  By the way, I live in the mountains of West Virginia, and am secluded from any major city, so we get shafted when it comes to technological services.

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C>ping -n 50 google.com

Pinging google.com [216.239.39.99] with 32 bytes of data:

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

>ping -n 50 google.com

Pinging google.com [216.239.57.99] with 32 bytes of data:

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I am not as familiar with what's common for dial-up ping times, but those look really high to me....is there another computer in the home that can connect the same way? can you run the same tests on it?

:whaa: thats not dialup... its called satellite... and thats a nice ping time... (relatively speaking...:haha:)

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:whaa: thats not dialup... its called satellite... and thats a nice ping time... (relatively speaking...:haha:)

gotcha.

...useless things like bypassing my router...

Are your pings and traceroutes any different with a direct connection?  Try comparing them from after a powercycle to when the connection slows down.  If they are the same in both instances, then it is likely software related, if they are noticably different then it is likely related to hardware, traffic or servers.

Also, what are your advertised down/up speeds?

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I highly doubt the router is his problem...stuff like this is typical of direcway... advertised speed is 500/50 I think, but I have yet to see it on their website...

Pinging testmy.net [67.18.179.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.18.179.85: bytes=32 time=1001ms TTL=45

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Ping statistics for 67.18.179.85:

    Packets: Sent = 25, Received = 25, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

    Minimum = 677ms, Maximum = 1576ms, Average = 920ms

also... powercycling might help occasionally by getting him on a proxy that isn't as overloaded...

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My problem was finally resolved after hours on the phone (mostly on hold) with advanced support.  They put me on a different transponder and had me register again as an installer.  This worked.  They couldn't really explain to my satisfaction why this problem started after 1 and a half years of trouble-free operation.  The guy mumbled something about the fact that a trasnponder change may be necessary from time to time.  Weird.  (I can't wait till Verizon comes up with DSL in my neighborhood.  I think that the fact that I live only 15 miles from the nation's capital and still can't get DSL or cable is obscene.)

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

Connection is:: 1002 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Download Speed is:: 122 kB/s

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

Test Time:: Sun May 29 11:34:17 EDT 2005

Bottom Line:: 18X faster than 56K 1MB download in 8.39 sec

Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 22.34 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-9DKZHO0XI

Bottom Line:: 17X faster than 56K 1MB download in 8.75 sec

Diagnosis: Looks Great : 16.75 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)

Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-0OXKZN67G

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