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Slow speed and Latency
Interesting... Your gateway's provider is Suddenlink (173.219.233.206), which appears to be randomly inserting a 1 second delay... which is not really terrible.
What troubles me is when you open up the wait time to 15 seconds, you have a consistent 10 second delay added between your terminal the satellite, which might indicate some kind of handshaking protocol issue. It's always the second number, not the initial one though... and that's weird.
Are you on Linux natively or running through a VM?
Unfortunately, though testmy's speed results tend to be accurate, their latency readings very often aren't. They can be wildly off. I'm not really sure of the reason why. With that said, the latency link you gave is to the test, but the results shown are actually old tests from various users.
The most accurate latency readings you can get are by running a trace route from your computer to a few different websites, whether using the URL or IP address.
