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Gen5 Upgrade..
I have decided to upgrade to Gen5. I have some questions that I want to be addressed before the install. I currently have an HN9000 model which uses 2 cables from the dish to modem. I had my in...
No. I didn't have the resets. Those coming from Gen4 (not sure about the faux Gen4) don't get the daily resets when upgrading to Gen5.
If I remember correctly, when I upgraded from my legacy plan to Gen4 and got the 20 days of daily resets, my account showed the proper allowance reset date, but I was still getting the daily resets. Once I was through with the initial 20 days of daily resets the data I had was for the remainder of the cycle (ten days), and then reset like a normal month after those ten days.
If yours is resetting more often than daily, it may continue to do so, but it will most likely only be for the first twenty days. That's pretty cool. Heck, that truly is like being unlimited for those 20 days. Even luckier bugger!!!! :)
Edit: The 12MB file size is for download speed testing with Gen4, but being that Gen5's speed can be twice what Gen4's are, the recommended download file size is 25MB.
Edit: Being that the speed was very good when directly connected, hopefully you can fiddle around and figure out how to get the wireless speeds near that, too. Perhaps someone on here may have some additional things to try.
Don't get spoiled or spoil the kiddos during a reset period.
Those coming from Gen3 to Gen4/5 will get 20 days of resets. Those coming from Gen4, unless they get a new SAN, will not get daily resets.
Anyways, yeah, Gen5 use the 25MB download package, and the 3 or 4MB upload package if testing that.
As for website issues, yeup, I have experienced odd slowdowns when opening websites, but have only experienced it when Web-Accel is on. I suspect Gen5 is more popular than expected and those servers take a good beating once in awhile thus causing page hangs and other abnormalities.
Gen4 had similar launch issues early on in its life, after a month or two everything was good to go for most everyone till the congestion started to take a toll on it.
By the way, if your able to, when testing, do direct connections...
As far as rebooting the modem, you can do so in the WebGUI under the Advanced Menu, there will be an almost invisible "i" icon near the language selection, click that, and you can click reboot.
How can I find out where my Relay location is? (I forget what the proper name is for it LOL)
We are having some storms move through here now. Nothing real heavy here right now just light rain but dark clouds and thundering. My signal has droped to around 70. Like to see what it does in more heavy rain!
Can't really, but, you can take a good guess if you look under System Status and look at IPGW Association State.
For instance, mine is J2SDO066HNSIGW0113
J2 SDO 066 HNS IGW 0113
J2 = Jupiter 2
SDO = SanDiego
066 = Beam 66
HNS = Hughesnet Service??? System???
IGW = IP Gateway???
0113 = Some kinda outroute and gateway???The gateway?
The only way I know is to look on the System Control Center's System Status and the IP Gateway Association State. After the J2, there are a few letters, and I believe those are the abbreviation of wherever your gateway is.
J2SDO068HNSIGW0111
If its SanDiego thats a long way away! I am in South Central Pennsylvania. I know that they can be far but....
To a satellite and the signal... it's not a big deal considering how far the satellite in space is.
wildcats198308 wrote:J2SDO068HNSIGW0111
If its SanDiego thats a long way away! I am in South Central Pennsylvania. I know that they can be far but....
Yeah, not nearly as far as the almost 45 thousand miles round trip to the satellite. A drop in the bucket.
