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New to Gen 5 see no difference from Gen 4
Did some testing starting a 5:30Am here and speeds look good but the charts where terrible. This last one was at 8am do see what it looked like when I went from bonus to regular time. IF I had this dat flow on a regular basis even if the speed dropped during peak I would be very happy.
Unfortuanely this is the exception NOT the rule. The rates during a single run of the test are usually all over the map, typically over 80% variance. As a process engineer I would say the system is NOT under control. Not sure whre the data is controlled but would expect it to be at the main office not local. So I suspect the tech will not be able to do much except maybe point me to a better Sat.
Can one of the techs on here explain how the data is supposed to be controlled? I really don't care to see bursts over 100MB when it next drops to 5MB even if it gives me a 30MB average. This seems like it would be jacking everybodys data rates around.
Tech was out today and I am very pleased witht he test results. My concern now is the signal strength used to be 111 but now is only 85. I hope I don't lose the internet everythime it rains. Gen 4 was well abobe 100 as well and I never lost internet even with the big tunderheads. Dish TV on the other hand was in and out everytime it rained. I will keep you posted but marking this issue closed for now. If anyone has comments regarding the reliablity during storms when starting out at 85 I would like to hear.
Thanks all.
It sounds like they did a repoint to another beam, thus a lower signal, but higher performance in terms of speed. Rain impact will be more notable, below about 50 or 60 you will start seeing more severe packet loss, ~32 is the cut-off for connectivity. With that said, I have sat at 80 before on a terminal and it was OK, provided it didn't rain much.
No, just replaced a bad transmitter. :) Still on E19.
