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Slow speeds during peak hours
So I have been seeing a lot of commercials for hughes net lately. 2 thoughts on these. 1, its a shame they are lying. 2, apparently my internet is ridicuously slow because I use it during peak hour...
It would, in time, but they manage the network as much as they can to prevent it, up to and including higher capacity satellites, as the technology advances and permits it.
Back to my original question if hughes.net gets more customers wont that cause more congestion and slower speeds?
*I am not a Hughesnet employee or representative. This is a customer-to-customer tech support community, and I am a customer.
maratsade wrote:It would, in time, but they manage the network as much as they can to prevent it, up to and including higher capacity satellites, as the technology advances and permits it.
Just to back that statement up, I've noticed this even on SDO68, where the number of routable gateway servers appeared to have increased not too long ago. Basically, what that does is reduce the addressable log jam at a particular gateway, provided the bandwidth going to the internet has also increased.
That's why rebooting the modem is the next best way to 'manually' re-associate it with a gateway and find an under-utilized server when it seems bogged down.
