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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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!
I am not sure if anyone has gone through their data for the month yet, but are there any stats on what the speed is once you pop your cap on Gen5?
tampasteve1 wrote:I am not sure if anyone has gone through their data for the month yet, but are there any stats on what the speed is once you pop your cap on Gen5?
I have been trying to FAP but I am in the 20 day resets since my install was considered a new install... I think someone at DSLR managed to FAP a unit and it showed ~3Mbps peak for their FAP speed, of course that's likely to change as time goes on. Once I FAP my unit, I will try to get some test results.
GW I have seen a very steady and stable speed with my Gen5 unit... http://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&l=250&z=30&q=C0RR0SIVE
GabeU wrote: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!
Gabe,
How well does this hold up during primetime?
I decided to test with my 10 Mbps G4 plan and here's what I got. The bite is, yesterday at 6 PM I was trying to do something with my schizonet and was getting 481 kbps which made it Mission Impossible.
Another question: how does your G5 RSS number compare to your G4 number?
GW wrote:Gabe,
How well does this hold up during primetime?
It's holding up great. No drop in speed to speak of. Then again, the satelite and beams barely have any load at this time.
And I imagine, due to ES19's much larger capacity than ES17 and the time it will take to load the satellite, gateways and/or beams to a state where it starts to have an effect on prime time speeds, it's going to be some time before anything changes.
I am on Gen5 with 30 GB limit, which I use up in about 10 days without any big movie steaming. During these prescious 10 days I get between 17Mbps and 48Mbps. When I run out of allotment, I am throttled down to between 1.8 Mbs and 2.9 Mbs. Above 2Mbp and steaming on Amazon Prime is fine. But, around 1.8Mbs, it becomes annoying as the steam stops and starts.
My question is why can't Hughes offer GEN5 customers the choice to throttle from the very beginning, say at 10Mbs, so as to prolong the allotment, then do the normal throttle to say around 3.0 Mbs?
To be honest, speed sells... How is Hughes to compete with anyone when everyone has "bigger and better" numbers? People buy what sounds the fastest/biggest, not the slowest.
That aside, speeds when in FAP can hit 1Mbps or lower, though you should still be able to stream standard definition video just fine.
