Forum Discussion
Satellite capacity, video streaming and other meanderings
OK, did some simple math here, please correct me if I made any errors. 1. Echostar 19 has been advertised as having "up to" 220 Gbps throughput: http://spacenews.com/atlas-5-launches-echostar-19/...
"That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had. SMH. "
I'm having lots of issues with speed, but I'm still happy to have gone to Gen 5. I keep a positive (naive???) outlook: it'll grow out of its growing pains and it'll be just fine.
maratsade wrote:
I'm having lots of issues with speed, but I'm still happy to have gone to Gen 5. I keep a positive (naive???) outlook: it'll grow out of its growing pains and it'll be just fine.
I'm hoping just that. Overall I've been quite happy with Gen5, and for the most part it's been better than Gen4. I just got a little jealous when I saw BirdDog's speed at that time of night. I used to see that, even in the highest usage times, but not very much anymore. With that said, though, I knew that what I was experiencing at the beginning would change as more people got on the satellite, my gateway and my beam. I just didn't expect it so quickly.
But, like I said, it's still enough for me to do most of what I normally do without any real issue. A few of the more graphics intensive websites load a bit slower, but if I didn't have to spare the extra few seconds it takes for them to load I'd have more of a problem than just the internet slowing down for a couple of hours. :p LOL.
Yes, BirdDog is getting too much fast data. Unfair! LOL
I've only had moderate speeds since the beginning (17 to 20 Mbps average), and now the speed is slower in general. I did have a period with higher speeds during the day, sometimes higher than 40 Mbps, but that's no longer the case.
I have some issues with Youtube and Netflix if the speed goes under 6 Mbps. I also have noticed that https pages are once again loading very slowly (they hadn't there for a while). The upside is the company's responsive, more than others from what I've seen in my lurkings. They're working on this, it'll take time, but things will improve.
" A few of the more graphics intensive websites load a bit slower, but if I didn't have to spare the extra few seconds it takes for them to load I'd have more of a problem than just the internet slowing down for a couple of hours."
As they load, you have time to go get yourself a sandwich. :)
I'm fine with 10 mbps speed, anything above that is gravy to me. Maybe because I have never had cable internet. Went from dial-up to satellite, thought I was in heaven. Admit downloading a file at 20-30 mbps is nice but not that big of a deal. I do get a lot of 20-30 mbps speed, especially early morning.
As far as page loading, I've been on high latency satellite for so long I'm used to it and don't expect anything else. I do notice much quicker page loads the few times I use my cell hot spot but truthfully not that big of a deal to me. So old I remember text painting a line at a time on a monochrome green screen over dialup. Took several seconds for a single line.
This here satellite stuff is dang sure awsome if'in ya ask me! :smileyhappy:
I'd actually be pretty good with 10Mbps, as well. Other than large file downloads taking a bit longer, nothing I do would be impacted in any way with a speed of 10Mbps. With most web pages, whether I get 47Mbps or 5Mbps, I don't see much difference.
I remember when I first ordered Gen4 I was thinking that I'd be very happy to get 60% of my up to (10Mbps or 15Mbps (can't remember for sure)) speed, and when my first test gave me 20Mbps I was floored. Nah, something's wrong, it can't be that high. I then got the same result, over and over. I was VERY happy. LOL. Then it kicked up to 30Mbps about six months later. Even better! Too bad it didn't make those darn Windows updates any faster. They were SOOOOO slow. Gen5 took care of that problem.
