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larrykelly's avatar
8 years ago

GEN-5 Speed faster than advertised

I ran a speed test using a utility different than HughesNet's and got the same excellent results. Notice the test results from a year ago of GEN-4 which I considered pretty good at the time. I just upgraded a couple days ago.

Larry

  • BirdDog's avatar
    BirdDog
    Assistant Professor

    The speeds may be correct but the latency definitely isn't. That low of latency is impossible on satellite.

     

    The satellite isn't loaded much right now, would expect the speed to eventually drop nearer to advertised.

    • anniebouscal's avatar
      anniebouscal
      Freshman

      I for 1 am tickled pink to have seen nothing less than 46Mbps since switching last Thuirsday. Awesome. My doc says 25Mbps is the bottom, which compares favorably with the sometimes < 1 Mbs over the pas many years. 25 will be sweet, if it ever gets that bad. Go Zags. 

       

      • larrykelly's avatar
        larrykelly
        Junior

        When I built my house it was surrounded by large corn fields on three sides. Today it's just part of the crowd. 

        Let's enjoy the wide open space while we can 😀

  • GabeU's avatar
    GabeU
    Distinguished Professor IV

    The download speed looks to be about what I've heard and seen, but the upload speed doesn't.  That upload result seems VERY high.