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grizzle's avatar
grizzle
Freshman
6 years ago

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

lighthope1 - Yes, they have been.  It's funny though, isn't it?  I've been forced to use HughesNet for years, and have complained for years, and have been told repeatedly there's nothing they can do....
MrBuster's avatar
MrBuster
Senior
6 years ago

 

 

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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GabeU's avatar
GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
6 years ago
MrBuster wrote: 
  • 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? 

Or they could be trying to find out which sites are more problematic, and why, in order to make various tweaks to the system for those sites to better work.