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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...
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.
Thanks Gabe. How does your G5 RSS number compare to your G4 number?
Your computer looks a lot like mine. FX-6300, Samsung SSD boot drive and a couple of WD Blacks with 16 GB RAM
My signal strenth for Gen4 normally sat in the low 120s, while my Gen5 varies between about 95 and 105, with it normally, so far, sitting around 102 or 103. The lower signal strength doesn't seem to matter, though, as my connection is great. I have run some ping tests and Hughesnet's own tests and have had zero packet loss with every one of them.
As for my computer, it's been pretty good. I'm not a gamer, so the fact that there was a big uproar about the FX core not being what it claimed to be after it was releasd didn't really affected me. It did make me a little disappointed, though, and it has made me a little more hesitant about jumping right in with the Ryzen like I did with the FX. Still, I do want to build a new desktop some time in the near future and it probably will be with the Ryzen, and by the time I do I'm sure the prices will have come down a bit, as well.
And the Samsung SSDs...great, aren't they? Fast, too! I actually have one in my laptop and notebook, too, with the desktop and laptop being the 840 EVO and the notebook being the standard 840. All three are 250GB drives. I took my original Crucial 128GB SSD, the first SSD I ever bought, and installed it in my folks' Samsung laptop and it breathed new life into it.
I'm wondering what to expect for RSS on G5. I used to get 170-ish with G3 on a clear day and I get 130-140 with G4 since I'm only 35 miles west of beam center. If I see 95 with G5, I'll know to have him try again.
I use my computer for business only. I've been very happy with the FX-6300 since I got it 2½ years ago so I don't know anything about a controversy. I did have to RMA the Asus motherboard right away because of a bad USB 3 port. I got it from Newegg and they always do advance RMA for me so I was down for the time it took me to change the parts. I think I have a couple more years before I have to start researching a new CPU. The less I know, the happier I am
Yes, the Samsung SSD is great. I have the 850 PRO 512GB and I love it. Sammy stuff is good stuff. We have a ton of it here. The most amazing thing about the SSD is how quickly it boots a W7 computer. I'll never go back to a normal drive for a boot drive.
