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.
