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macsociety
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8 years ago

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...
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  • macsociety's avatar
    macsociety
    7 years ago

    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

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beckyfairless33
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Me too. installed at the beginning of September and I have not ever been able to use the on demand feature offered with dish. So sorry I switched from cable.  I cant believe Im saying that.  I have been on the phone with dish and Hughesnet over a dozen times in six weeks and they keep telling me there is no problem.  Everything is working fine.  But I still cant watch video on demand.  The most recent Hughesnet employee told me the problem is with my television because its not connected wirelessly.  Really?  How could that even be a thing?

  • macsociety's avatar
    macsociety
    Advanced Tutor
    8 years ago

    Liz, thought I would report an oddity.

    So I reported yesterday was my 1st good day.  All seemed good today up until around 3ish.... felt all started slowing up.  Ran a test at 4:27 and was slow, down in the 2Mbps range.  Like past weeks.  So did a admin reset from 192.168.0.1 and ran another test.  Same slow 2Mbps range.  So pulled the plug on the modem, left unpowered for a couple minutes, rebooted all and tested again.  Was back to decent speeds.  Not sure how long it will hold but figured I would report this.  

     

    http://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&l=25&z=74&q=macsociety

     

    TJ

    • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
      C0RR0SIVE
      Associate Professor
      8 years ago

      macsociety

       

      Tomorrow if it starts slowing down, can you avoid pulling the plug and run tests and let us know what happens over time?  Get 2-3 days of that if it continues, and attempt 2-3 days of removing power and inform us of the results...

      • macsociety's avatar
        macsociety
        Advanced Tutor
        8 years ago
        C0RR0SIVE wrote:

        macsociety

         

        Tomorrow if it starts slowing down, can you avoid pulling the plug and run tests and let us know what happens over time?  Get 2-3 days of that if it continues, and attempt 2-3 days of removing power and inform us of the results...

        Hi C0RR0SIVE, I will be able to do that today but I head out tomorrow afternoon to get my Geek down and attending a yearly Amiga (remember Commodore Computers from the olden days) Computer Faire.  I have been using computers since the 70s so enjoy my retro Atari, Commodore, and Amiga systems from days gone by.  ;-)

         

        But when I get back I will try this.  Thanks for the note.

         

        TJ