Gen5 since late March.....
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I have never, since the install, got consistent 25 up/3 down, and in general, I was in the neighborhood of 17/18 down, but recently, the speeds have dipped noticeably -- I wonder what happened. I can't believe beams are oversold, though I suppose they may be. It's quite a puzzling thing.
maratsade wrote:I have never, since the install, got consistent 25 up/3 down, and in general, I was in the neighborhood of 17/18 down, but recently, the speeds have dipped noticeably -- I wonder what happened. I can't believe beams are oversold, though I suppose they may be. It's quite a puzzling thing.
I just hope they are not adding to the issue by adding new customers onto known beams with issues. That does no good-will to the new customer or existing. They need to neutralize things and keep the ship afloat, fix the holes, show some improvements that the issue was fixed, then add more new folks.
I sense that is not the case though meaning I see nothing or have heard anything like someone wanting to join and being turned away or added but warned of the major speed issues taking place.
TJ
Genuinely think it's not really the number of people that's the problem. It's what a few people are trying to do that is clogging it up.
MarkJFine wrote:Genuinely think it's not really the number of people that's the problem. It's what a few people are trying to do that is clogging it up.
Here is my guess.... and it is only that.... a guess.
Doubt it is the bird. Can't imagine they would spend so much to send the bird up there w/o making sure it was in tip top shape.
My guess it is the ISP infrastructure in place that dishes out the actual internet. My guess what is in place now is having a hard time with all the traffic, and at night comes to a crawl.
So the message a number of weeks back that stated effective immediatly, expansion of the capacity meant some $ is being thrown at this infrastructure and any of the locations that feed the Internet to us all is getting a facelift, as we speak... but will take some time for it to all pan out.
Hoping that amount of time is not months away but mere weeks.
But that is my guess.
;-)
TJ
Infrastructure is part of it, but I think it's really a stopgap to alleviate what exists now: people attempting to stream HD movies, subscribed to cable-cutting technologies that are too high a rate, incompatible cameras, latency-dependent VPN, or running any other kind of system-intense technologies that are good enough for terrestrial but will bring limited satellite resources to its knees. [Edit: Not to mention all the IoT stuff like smart scales, refrigerators, lighting systems, door locks, microwaves, washer/dryers... all of these things that load down a particular user's bandwidth, let alone combined on a limited beam]
We did the math on this several weeks ago. It only takes a relatively few people (in the thousands, iirc) on any one beam to use any of these at any one time to drag everyone on it into the dirt.
So beam capacity is only one part of the problem that might level the load across a beam better rather than compressing it amongst fewer servers and outroutes. You still need to level those resources across the beams routed to a particular gateway (or even intra-gateway, which would certainly increase latency). This way you can pull in resources from underutilized beams (and gateways), and dynamically make full use of the satellite's capacity across the userbase, focusing it where it's needed at any given time.
This all assumes the bottleneck isn't the beam itself (which I really doubt), and lies mostly in the processing required at the ground stations.
