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New Gen 5 owner in Northern California (slow as molasses)
Hi, new Gen 5 owner in Northern Calfornia, near Sacramento up in the foothills. Service installed yesterday. Slow very slow speeds. Called tech support at Hughes today and they said they will esca...
My repoint to ES17 is done. Promising for sure.
As speeds can always go up and down on a whim, I will ride this for a week ro two before I say it is fixed for sure but apepars we should be good to go.
Before the installer came over I had a about 1Mbps down.... and after, they are 24 and 17Mbps so far.
What appears to have suffered in the switch back to ES17 is uploads so far. I was getting better 2Mbps before the installer came over and now getting between 800K and 1Mbps. I can live with that. ;-)
So... so far so good. Thanks Hughes for getting things back on track.
https://testmy.net/quickstats/macsociety
TJ
Gass Valley here pretty much sucks getting tired of paying for this crap!!!!!!!!!!!
TripleMRanch wrote:Gass Valley here pretty much sucks getting tired of paying for this crap!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope you are not affected by the fires.
I am sure Hughes will get it all worked out.
But yes, it is aggravating not having reliable usable speed.
TJ
Painfully slow this afternoon.
http://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&l=25&z=74&q=macsociety
Even upload has slowed up.
Downloads of 959kbps and 2.31Mbps the last 2.
My last upload was only 986kbps.
:smileysad:
TJ
Wow- lucky you, My last mytest said 9 KBPS. Put in a call to Rural net and Verizon- we'll see what happens. By the way, I have had Hughesnet for over 10 years, and this is the worst it's ever been. As well as the most expensive. But, in their defense, this is better customer service than it used to be. A couple years ago you would have had no communication from them whatsoever.
alacatr wrote:Wow- lucky you, My last mytest said 9 KBPS. Put in a call to Rural net and Verizon- we'll see what happens. By the way, I have had Hughesnet for over 10 years, and this is the worst it's ever been. As well as the most expensive. But, in their defense, this is better customer service than it used to be. A couple years ago you would have had no communication from them whatsoever.
I have been on and off a Hughes customer since 2001. Whatever service they offered in 2001 is what I started with. Then left and went local line of site, but that had issues, so went back to Hughes again. Then left to ATT Wireless Home Phone & Internet, and was decent, but slow at the same time (1 to 3Mbps) but a steady slow. Just pained me they wanted $10 per GB overage, so I went back to Hughes with Gen 5. This just happened so the jury is out in longer term if I chose well. Right now it looks bleak but I feel they will iron things out and when it happens, having OK speeds in in FAP will be nice. I am hoping it all pans out. TJ
