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GabeU's avatar
GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago

Lost connection for a short time....

Did anyone else lose their connection for about ten or twelve minutes around 1:00AM EST on 8/28?  No weather here or at my gateway, and my signal strength was great, but I lost connection to the gateway.  

 

In the early evening I was intermittently losing connection with one of my DirecTV tuners.  Again, no weather.  

 

I didn't read about anything, but I wonder if there were some solar flares that we are dealing with.  My DirecTV never does that unless there is bad weather, and to have both systems lose connection within hours of each other?  Very weird.  

 

NOTE:  This thread is a specific question about a specific occurrence.  Please do not flood it with posts about your HughesNet issues.  

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    7 years ago

    Was a geomagnetic storm on the 26th, with K-indeces between 5 and 7. Slight recurrence between 15-21UT yesterday afternoon.

     

    I also noticed a short outage last evening, but it was well after 21UT. More like closer to midnight-1ish UT. I just assumed a rain storm was coming because it looked real greenish-orange out at sundown. But now in retrospect, it could have very well been a daytime aurora (if that's even possible).

     

    Could also have been a result of Jose Mourinho losing 3-nil to Spurs... at Old Trafford. Lol

     

    Edit: If you ever need a resource: http://www.spaceweather.com/

    • GabeU's avatar
      GabeU
      Distinguished Professor IV
      7 years ago

      MarkJFine

       

      I figured it might be something like that.  It's too coincidental that both systems were being affected within hours of each other.  

       

      Very interesting.  

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    "No weather here or at my gateway, and my signal strength was great, but I lost connection to the gateway.  "

     

    It was me, sorry. I turned on the vacuum cleaner.

  • maratsade's avatar
    maratsade
    Distinguished Professor IV
    7 years ago

    I wasn't using the service at that time, so I don't know if it happened here, but what Mark said makes sense. Seems the storm was significant.

    • MarkJFine's avatar
      MarkJFine
      Professor
      7 years ago

      yeah, but it was high level for about 6 hours. Think the TV was out here for maybe 5 minutes after it was over.

      Unless, maybe, there was also a proton event that I didn't see?

      • maratsade's avatar
        maratsade
        Distinguished Professor IV
        7 years ago

        It was also on the 26th, so maybe it was the remnants?