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 u...
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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.
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.
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 😀
Just for the heck of it, because I am at the end of my data cycle and still have a considerable amount left, I did some playing around. I downloaded a 1.68GB Linux Mint installation file just to see how long it would take. The entire file only took five minutes and ten seconds, and the download speed was phenomenal! It's almost shocking.
It almost feels like it's FIOS. LOL.
A speed of 5.70MBps (45.6Mbps) is awesome!
