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bljhn's avatar
bljhn
Freshman
8 years ago

HN out of service over 22% in a 12-hour period with clear skies. 12.7.1 State Code is killing us.

Over the past few days, our HN has been going down constantly every 15-20 minutes.  We called Tech Support 3 times over the past couple of days and was told it was just bad weather which we did have....
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  • Amanda's avatar
    Amanda
    8 years ago

    Hello,

     

    Those of you in Louisiana (Beam 53) should have operational services now. Our engineers found a configuration issue in one specific network route, corrected it and restored service. If you are still experiencing issues, please powercycle your HughesNet modem. Should it persist, please let me know.

     

    Thank you,

    Amanda

bljhn's avatar
bljhn
Freshman

Thanks Gabe.

I was aware that weather on both ends could affect it.  Our weather for the past 24 hours has been cloud-free, crystal clear eliminating weather as an issue on our end.  National weather radar right now shows the entire country pretty much in the clear....unless they're located up in Newfound, Canada.  This tells me that's its either hardware or satellite beam issue.  With it working flawlessly for 2 years staight and then to have this suddenly crop up, makes me wager on a hardware issue.

FWIW, looking at the diagonistics page, the Hourly History has a red X in the UpLink row for every hour for the past 20 hours or so.  Same red X with the Current Hour when we are actually using it.  When not in use, there are a few green check marks, but not many.

Hopefully, they can help us resolve this tomorrow.

Again, appreciate it.

bljhn's avatar
bljhn
Freshman
8 years ago

For Liz/Amanda should they read this:  Our satellite is EchoStar-XVII, Beam 53 

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    8 years ago

    Beam 53 is Boise, which has had good weather for a while, so it's not from that.

    12.7.1 might be a couple of things:

    1. Check to see that the power plug is firmly seated in the back of the modem. If it's loose, carefully push it back in and see if the problem corrects itself.

    2. Make sure the other end is firmly in a wall socket and not in a surge protector or surge protecting power strip, as those might drop it below nominal power levels.

    3. Also make sure the wall socket is part of a power circuit intended for lights and not heavy appliances (washer/dryer, heating unit, etc.), as those may cause a power drop as well.

     

    Edit: If correcting any of the above doesn't fix the problem, you may need service requiring a technician.

    • knotreel's avatar
      knotreel
      Freshman
      8 years ago

      I've have a very similar experence, it started about 12/6 or 12/7 when recent bad weather began in my area ( Louisiana) which finally culminated with snow 12/8. Weather cleared 12/9 and has been blue skies since. During the weather leading up the snow (very cloudy and light rain) my internet was down about 90% of the time. I thought my internet would come back after the ckear out but it only has recovered marginally. I have tried all the sugested fixes including by passing my router, trying another cat5 connection from computer to modem, nothing has fixed it. It still comes and goes randomly. I am on sat.  XVII and beam 53, gateway 7. I get the same code, 12.7.1 and status as follows, operational state = down, IPGateway Assocaition state= "associating" , TCP Acceleration = down.My signal strenght shows 112-115. I have check the coax connections for tightness except on the roof. I am at the end of "helping myself". Hopefully the monitors will put me in the "needs help" list......Help!!!!

      • Philip Gaudet1's avatar
        Philip Gaudet1
        New Poster
        8 years ago

        I've been having the same problem for days now.  I'm also on EchoStar-XVII beam 53 (SW Louisiana).  The system been going out every few mintues.  The diagnostic page shows X's every hour for the last 24 hours (uplink problem, code 12.1.12).   We've tried everything.  Even had a tech come and realign the dish (signal strength 122 - 130).  He also put a new LNB? on the dish.  Thought it was fixed, but 10 minutes after he left the problem came back.  Tech support convinced me to switch to Gen5 and are sending me a new modem.  They said wouldn't need to switch satellites, just plug the new modem in.  Wish I would have found this thread before ordering the new modem.  Seems the problem might be with the satellite and not my modem after all.

    • bljhn's avatar
      bljhn
      Freshman
      8 years ago

      Thanks Mark.

      I've already checked both of those things thinking I might be getting a low voltage/bad connection situation.  It was plugged into a surge protector and I moved it directly to the wall outlet itself.  Also checked the modem's back connections and made sure everything is tight.

      It doesn't matter what it's plugged into, it's still on the same schedule to go down every 15 minutes or so.

      We are in southwest Louisiana....clear as a bell today.