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New Subscriber with a few dumb questions.
Ok so I am aware of how the rules go with the data allowances. Regular speed until I blow through the 20GB cap and then the speeds get throttled. What I need to know though... are the cap speeds d...
The speed thing so far hasnt been a consistant problem. Ill just randomly run into times of slow speeds, but usually its very snappy, 20+ mbps. So ive just chalked it up to congestion or maybe the weather. Even when its slow its still comperable to what I was getting from Windstream... well before they refused to repair the line and the connection speed went to crap.
The only time its a issue is when I am trying to play a game of Hitman 2 on steam and the connection makes their online DRM thing go crazy and it throws me out of a mission. I'm still not sure whats up with it, even steam looses connection, then as soon as I leave the game it reconnects.
My main worry was that after I ran out of data it would scale down and suddenly have periods it was REALLY bad. lol
Another odd thing I have encountered is that something about the HN connection prevents speedtest.net from working. The website will load, but ill almost always get a latency error, page error, or something before the test starts. Google and HN's speed tests work fine though.
Speedtest gives some HughesNet customers issues. It does me, too. I gives me the same latency test error on the occasion that I've tried it. I solely use testmy.net.
Regarding the game, I'm not familiar with it, though I am the films. If it's an online game, it may be that it doesn't get along with the latency inherent to satellite internet, which is very high in comparison to all other internet services. Turn based games are normally fine, but any games that require real time movement or reactions don't tend to work well with HughesNet, if at all.
Hopefully the speed issue doesn't get more consistent.
Regarding the coax question, I'm assuming you edited it out for a reason, so I won't answer it, but if it's something you're thinking of doing I would ask Liz about it in the other thread. She'd know better whether it's necessary, or if it could even cause issues with doing so.
The DRM issue is a latency issue, not a speed issue. Each 'ping' takes a minimum of about half a second to up to the satellite, over to the ground station, out the terrestrial internet to the destination server, then all the way back. They take even longer for secure connections (which I'm sure this is) due to the extra packet and processing overhead, it's very likely that DRM checks are timing out.
