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A short ode to Jupiter 2
Fly fast and fly soon. Please leave for orbit tomorrow at noon.
Fly safe and fly free. Please rain some primetime bandwidth on me.
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- Not sure Gabe. We have a Hughes installer in the group who pays attention and has absolutely earned my respect with his over and above service and deeds.
His understanding is relieving pressure from Jupiter is first priority as compared to the more popular notion that cleaning out Spaceway will be top job. Did you see that post? For obvious reasons, I want to bet my chips on his cards.
Edit for link: https://community.hughesnet.com/hughesnet/topics/new-tech Yep. I did read that, and although I respect Gokartergo very much, he's yet the only one who has seemed to hear anything about what may be the plans for the new satellite, and the Reps are yet to release any info.
Perhaps that is the plan, but it just seems backward to me to "fix" the problems with the new before "fixing" the problems with the old. Again, though, I guess we'll see when they actually do whatever it is they are going to do.
- We have another test to do on the new satellite which will confirm whether we go on the 18th... so my sources say. I agree with Gwalk-- test twice (or 8279 times) and launch once.
- Yea, not like once it is lit can say "oh wait, one more thing we need to check".
No brakes like on a car......lol. Hey CORROSIVE, I'll trade ya some off-peak bandwidth for a little primetime stuff.
Here's what happens Monday morning (average 30.1 Mbps)
compared to Saturday night average of 922 Kbps. Pretty big difference.
The difference is you can't dump a 50 pound bag of stuff through a funnel designed to pour from a gallon jug into a quart. It just makes a mess of things.
The 15 MB tests I set up this morning failed by running too fast so the testmy auto-escalated all to >44 MB.
Disclosure to Gabe: These tests were run through my router so objects in chart may be slower than they appear :-)
Disclosure to Gabe: These tests were run through my router so objects in chart may be slower than they appear :-)
Classic. I love it!- Will this help with the absolutely terrible service we currently receive during evening and weekend hours? I read somewhere to even see a benefit we will have to upgrade our equipment, is this true?
- I read a lot, I hear a lot and I attend has many meetings has I can. Thou I am not a official rep of Hughes. The reps here kind of have there hands tied. They can not say much. And that is understandable. Trade secrets and all.
No matter what they do, I hope that, in the end, the new satellite has enough throughput to both help those on the older satellite AND those that are on heavily saturated beams/gateways. And, of course, enough to add more customers without it starting to do what it is doing for some now. Perhaps doing all three without much problem is a bit of wishful thinking, but I guess we will find out in a few months when they get it up and running and start using it.
- I have seen the map with all the beams of Jupiter2 It will cover the areas Jupiter one did not hit. The beams are oddly shaped in heavily congested areas. My guess is so they can get more beams in a area. Jupiter 2 will do all three. And from my understanding The LEO satellites will hopefully be up around 2020.
