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Speed issues, can't stay on chat for Help
Last night DL was consistently under 1 mbps, up was 2.5 to 4 This morning, DL has ranged from sub 1 to 10. I have been on 4 chats and they just stop replying or disconnect. One rebooted modem a fe...
Hi bronccat,
Thank you for this information. I also noticed on your account that you've reached out to our corporate office, so yes, one of our corporate representatives will be in contact with you to address your concerns. I've shared this thread with him so that he has more details on the troubleshooting attempted thus far. I'll go ahead and close out this thread, as I'm sure our rep will provide you with a resolution.
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
-Liz
You definitely want to run this test hard wired. WiFi problems are complex and crazy hard to fix so you want to be sure your connection using the wired cable gives a good result before moving on to finding issues with the WiFi. You want to to get a group of results up there according to those step that maratsade gave, and then the advanced group that gives support through this site are much better at assisting folks than the lower level phone/chat group.
For my first 6 months with HughesNet, I had fantastic WiFi -- then the leaves started to come off the trees and the neighbors WiFis were stomping all over mine. Being sure you do not have a problem with your dish or modem or something that must come first or you will go crazy.
Once you have some good tests up there, you can let them know by posting your link to the testmy.net results. Although I assume your results are the ones for bronccat.
Thank you MrBuster. I will run the analytics once I find my ethernet cable. I am quite savvy at troubleshooting network issues but this modem is foreign to me.
(This isn't at you) what's maddening to me is that I have brand new equipment that's showing great DL speeds at the modem according to HN. If the issue is only wifi, then wow. Most devices are going to run on wifi and this makes me think I should have brought another router and used it as an AP so I could better manipulate it. Since day one I wished the HN equipment to be a modem only and user supplied router.
(This isn't at you) what's maddening to me is that I have brand new equipment that's showing great DL speeds at the modem according to HN. If the issue is only wifi, then wow. Most devices are going to run on wifi and this makes me think I should have brought another router and used it as an AP so I could better manipulate it. Since day one I wished the HN equipment to be a modem only and user supplied router.
bronccat wrote:
If the issue is only wifi, then wow. Most devices are going to run on wifi and this makes me think I should have brought another router and used it as an AP so I could better manipulate it. Since day one I wished the HN equipment to be a modem only and user supplied router.Once your base speed is established by the ethernet connected tests you'll run your WiFi issues can be troubleshooted. Various things can affect WiFi speed, including those that are not related to HughesNet itself. In other words, there's nothing yet to say tht a 3rd party router would improve your WiFi speed, as the cause of the WiFi speed issue has yet to be established.
For reference, you're free to use any 3rd party router you like. You aren't required to use the HughesNet modem's built in WiFi. However, it would be wise to first establish the cause of the aforementioned problem.
- I'll add in response to maratsade:
I was clearly venting at the absurdity of their email support. They aren't even reading the email chain when replying to my last reply - just spewing the same response with no regard for the previous comments. How is that remotely support? And they've done it again, twice. - Oh I totally agree. The answer lies in establishing that it's a wifi issue at the modem and not a local interface issue in general.
I was ranting a bit about a 3rd party router - I'm just appalled at the lack of range with this device. Our cabin is tiny and the 5g signal is paltry. Welp, found my cable and forgot I don't have an ethernet port on my laptop :smileyvery-happy: %#%^*#%)@(
bronccat wrote:
Welp, found my cable and forgot I don't have an ethernet port on my laptop :smileyvery-happy: %#%^*#%)@(
EXACTLY! One will be here in the AM.
Still testing at sub 1mbps. Tried changing channels, mhz, etc. and no improvement. I'll post back tomorrow.Hope it'll be better tomorrow. Without the link to your My Results page on Testmy.net, though, you're basically just spinning your wheels here and wasting opportunities.
- I can certainly do that but I didn't think anyone wanted to see them until I was testing over ethernet connection
Are you still in your first 20 days as a customer?
The reason I ask this is that I wonder if what may be going on is that one or more of your connected devices are continually sapping your bandwidth. If they were still connected while you were testing, and they were sapping bandwidth, it would most definitely affect your speed. And, with the first 20 days being a time of continual data replenishment, you may never know that something on your network is using huge amounts of data.
What devices do you have connected? The reason I ask is that some devices can use inordinate amounts of data. Just in case, you can see your currently connected and currently disconnected devices on this modem page. The disconnected devices are those that were connected, but are no longer, or at least not at present, since the last time the modem was plugged in.
- My second billing cycle started yesterday. Everyday during the first, it reset to 100% available. It said I used 2.1 GB yesterday - I could account for all of that. Laptop (cloud file transfer), phone (various apps) and firestick was .7 GB. I did not stream on FS but have now turned off autoplay, minimized quality, etc.
After saying I used 2.1 - said I had 19.7 of 20 available? Hmmm
I am waiting for USB to Ethernet so I brought home another router today to see if the wifi was better - it was the same, or worse.
I'll test at modem tomorrow with wifi off and other router unplugged. - Here are my results FWIW. All on wifi - from my phone and laptop.
https://testmy.net/quickstats/Bronccat - I'll add, performance wise it's been this way since day one - although I just this week starting speed testing. The moment it was testing at 20, it was obviously faster.
Good news is I am already used to Throttle down speeds - or worse lmao Ouch. Your upload speeds are acceptable, but your download speeds are awful. Let's see what happens with the direct connection.
bronccat wrote:
Here are my results FWIW. All on wifi - from my phone and laptop.
https://testmy.net/quickstats/Bronccat- Exactly. The UL has been better than expected all the while. I'll take those UL speeds all day.
If you're trying to reconcile what it shows on the daily parts of the monthly usage graph with what your total usage is showing, it may very well be off. A month or so back a few of us noticed that the monthly graphs weren't reporting data usage properly on their breakdowns. HughesNet is aware of the issue and it's been escalated to the engineers.
The total usage still appears to be correct, however, as in the data level "donuts", with the "X used of X in your plan" and the percentage used indicator, but the monthly breakdown is being goofy. I just noticed on my monthly usage graph that the dates aren't even correct now for my data cycle.
It's the Gremlins I tell ya, Gremlins!!! Just kidding, and just a little levity for what is no doubt a bit frustrating. 🙁
- Lol, I WON'T get water on the modem ;-)
What's been the most frustrating has been their inability to communicate logically. They keep sending me back to phone and chat that won't work with the current DL and that resolves nothing.
Finally, someone emailed today and basically said that the people answering emails aren't equipped to deal with this. Only chat / call people.
bronccat wrote:
Here are my results FWIW. All on wifi - from my phone and laptop.
https://testmy.net/quickstats/BronccatThere is a LAN Speed Test. This test may not be useful for the HughesNet engineers and techs, but I guess if the wired hook up is not available for a bit, then at least you can run a speed test between the HT2000W and your computer without passing data over the satellite or Internet to see if there are locations in your place where WiFi performance is bad or good due to something? At least it will give an idea how well the WiFi is working even if it does not tell you anything else...also this test does not count against your data as it does not go over the satellite, so you can test away! You may have seen this already, but I thought I would mention it.
It is on this screen under General on the left:If you have Windows, you can watch the Task Manager for fun -- if you see the graph looks like a fork or has drops, it may indicate something else talking on the frequency the WiFi is using. In this screen shot I ran the LAN test twice:
*This seemed to fail posting the first time, maybe it will post now that I waited a few minutes.
Link for the LAN Speed Test mentioned above...
http://192.168.0.1/limited.html#!/general/lan_speed
As soon as you click the test link it will run and test the modem/device throughput for that particular device.
- On my phone, both routers we around 40 mbps on 2g and 85 to 160 on 5g
- Yes, I added a Netgear AC1200 to test that wifi vs the base unit. Same results. Range is much better but same issues.
Just a thought:
If you're able to use 802.11ac you'll vastly increase lan speed via wifi. By doing so you're increasing the capacity and throughput the router can handle so things don't get locally congested if there are multiple devices active on the system.
That's just for wifi though. You get max throughput using a LAN cable regardless, which is why you want to speed test that way (and with wifi disabled) - it isolates the wifi protocol (as well as strength) out of the equation.
- I'm still at 675kb $&#*@(
Any reason I shouldn't try a factory reset on the modem?
I'm driving to town tomorrow to curse tech support over the phone (no apologies here lmao)
bronccat wrote:
I'm still at675kbb $&#*@(
Any reason I shouldn't try a factory reset on the modem?Yes. A factory reset should only be done for specific reasons and only under the instruction of a HughesNet rep. This is for various reasons, the most important of which is that a reset performed improperly or in the wrong instance can cause more harm than good.
The reps will be back on Monday. Hopefully your adapter will be in soon and you can get a few directly connected speed tests in to start getting the help you need from them. Make sure that when you've run the tests you indicate so so that they can start their troubleshooting.
