Re: ""...we are increasing the amount of available capa..." - lighthope1

Ideally, it would be best to have various users on different beams to try out Teams with VPN and Teams without VPN.  I am pretty sure I have been using Teams and Webex both ways, and it seems good both ways but trying under conditions of some congestion would be good to see if this is a factor.  I have been pretty busy today, and with ping times flat lined near minimum for satellite until after 9am and staying insanely low until after 3:30pm, I don't think I have had a fair chance of seeing any congestion yet for a fair test.  It operated great today, but today was unusually fast judging by the numbers I am looking at.

MarkJFine does have a good point.  I have noticed that uploading to an FTP with the VPN can be painful, and fast if I kill the VPN.  The reasons he mentioned are spot on.

Anyway, the "throttling" of video is through the VDS, and I am pretty confident of the following speculation regarding the HughesNet optimization strategies*:

• Turning off the VDS (when it stays off ;-) eliminates all evidence of throttling
• VDS does not appear to throttle productivity sites -- at least the ones I see. 
• That request they put out asking for user input about work/education related sites they are having trouble with would imply they are intending to give these sites extra priority -- throttling them would be very counter productive to the entire purpose of the effort.  After all, they are not putting all this is place to roll out a bunch of new plans with crazy limits and glowing names, right?

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