And this is what those 44,000 are doing to me. 😞
Granted, I'm still able to browse and Facebook without issue.
@GabeU wrote:And this is what those 44,000 are doing to me. 😞
Granted, I'm still able to browse and Facebook without issue.
Things are actually getting better for me on ES 17 Gen 4 since people are bailing to Gen 5 ES 19. Things still get bad on weekends and holidays or big sports nights.
BirdDog,
That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had. SMH.
My folks, who live right across the street, still have Gen4, though I don't know what their speeds are. Probably pretty good.
With that said, it's going back up now. Sub 1Mbps speeds for me are VERY rare. I've only ever had four sub 1Mbps speed since upgrading to Gen5 at the end of March. That one was 3rd from the bottom.
And though I don't know about doing so while having the speed I just did, even when it's in the lower, single digit Mbps range I can still normally watch Youtube vids in 480p without issue.
Wish I had access to the all the engineering data like satellite/beam/gateway throughput by time line..........but then they'd have to kill me. 
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! 
@maratsade wrote:
The satellite really likes you, Gabe. I've never experienced consistent speeds, and of late they've been very slow, sometimes so slow they've affected browsing. It'll get better, though, I'm sure of it.
Well, it's not liking me as much lately. As of the last month or so my evening speeds have been dropping considerably, and though my experience isn't as bad as yours, when you're used to it working well, and the speed dropping only somewhat during the peak usage periods, the speed dropping into the low to mid single digits, or lower, is quite noticeable. Again, most things I use it for still work just fine, but I have noticed as of the last few nights that even Youtube vids are starting to have some hiccups, even when my speeds are in the teens.
I think that, maybe, the Hughes' engineers are just trying to even the system out to be able to take care of those badly affected beams I know that something changed, as when my speeds dropped during the peak times about a month ago, it was like a switch. One day there was the normal difference, and the next....BAM! Over the months it had gone from practically no difference to it gradually dropping into the 30s, then 20s, then even the teens, but this drop was practically instant. Again, I'm still not that affected when doing most of the things I normally do, but it was interesting, nonetheless.
Peak usage three months ago...
Two months ago...
One month ago...
This month...
Granted, these are hand picked, and there were tests once in a while that stuck out like a sort thumb, but these are more representative of what's "normally" happening during the given month. November was a little wild, with it going down, then up, then down, then WAY down.
