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Intermittent slow internet speeds, HIGH variations, occasionally unusable
I have opened a case with HughesNet and they promptly closed it with a "Everything is fine at the moment" canned message. Called on lunch at work, got a person in India who read from a script, said ...
Hi Wolf,
Thanks for posting and welcome to the community! I appreciate you running tests and providing many updates. Please check your private messages in the top right corner of the community page as I've sent you a PM to further address your concerns.
Your patience and understanding are much appreciated.
Hey Wolf - My local service provider has helped me understand what's going on at HughesNet. They've recently launched a new satellite and are in the process of "migrating" customs to the new satellite from the overloaded old one. The problem is that they've changed the beam locations which effects the reception and strength you receive in different areas. These are all corporate issues that can't be solved by tech support. Like all new tech ventures, the customers are just "beta testers" for the upgraded technology and we're at the mercy of the corporate masterminds on how and when they will fix the problems created by the addition of the new satellite. I'm a long time HughesNet customer who lives in an rural area with limited bandwidth access. They've solved problems like this before, but not necesarily in a timely manner for the customer. I know this doesn't help your problem, but I thought you might like to know you're not the only one suffering.
Good Luck,
Larry
Thanks for the reply, I am aware many are having the same issue. As for further info, I have again ran a speed test tonight, and this is my result:
MANUAL TEST 25MB
:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 186 kbps or 0.2 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 25 MB or 25600 kB or 26214400 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 23 kB/s
Tested At:: https://TestMy.net
Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/qpWijfzyw
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 0.13 Mbps | Middle Avg 0.18 Mbps | Max 0.23 Mbps | 56% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 0.13 Mbps, 0.13 Mbps, 0.15 Mbps, 0.16 Mbps, 0.19 Mbps, 0.2 Mbps, 0.2 Mbps, 0.2 Mbps, 0.21 Mbps, 0.2 Mbps, 0.18 Mbps, 0.17 Mbps, 0.18 Mbps, 0.18 Mbps, 0.18 Mbps, 0.18 Mbps, 0.2 Mbps, 0.23 Mbps, 0.23 Mbps
Client Stats:: https://testmy.net/compID/2229861827468
Test Time:: 2018-01-17 18:40:42 Local Time
Client Location::
Target:: Dallas, TX https://dallas5.testmy.net
Client Host:: https://testmy.net/hoststats/Unknown
Compare:: 96% slower than client avg, 99% slower than world index
1MB Download in 44.52 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~13 Hours - 3X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 25600 kB took 1128.137 seconds to complete
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/63.0.3239.132 Safari/537.36 [!]As for anyone wondering what beam:
-Satellite Name
--EchoStar-19-NAD
-Gateway ID
--16
-Beam ID
--35
-Outroute ID
--6
