My billing cycle ends in 3 days but I still have 83% remaining in my service plan. Use it or...

[SunBelt57]

loose it?

Also:

I've tried the speed tests using the site: testmy.net using the 12M download and I get anywhere from 40M to 50M which should be very good. Yet it seems to take a while for a site to come up compared to when I was on dsl with Century Link. Is this just the nature of the beast (latency issue)?

My LAN has 3 Linux boxes running Ubuntu 16.04 and a Windows 7 box going to a 24 port switch. I tried the download test with the main workstation plugged directly into the modem and then threw the switch as normal. That doesn't seem to make a difference in the test. I mostly use youtube-dl to download youtube videos and it seems real slow too. I think it may be because I need to download bigger chunks at a time using the download options:

-r, --limit-rate RATE            Maximum download rate in bytes per second
                                 (e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
-R, --retries RETRIES            Number of retries (default is 10), or
                                 "infinite".
--fragment-retries RETRIES       Number of retries for a fragment (default
                                 is 10), or "infinite" (DASH, hlsnative and
                                 ISM)
--skip-unavailable-fragments     Skip unavailable fragments (DASH, hlsnative
                                 and ISM)
--abort-on-unavailable-fragment  Abort downloading when some fragment is not
                                 available
--keep-fragments                 Keep downloaded fragments on disk after
                                 downloading is finished; fragments are
                                 erased by default
--buffer-size SIZE               Size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
                                 (default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer               Do not automatically adjust the buffer
                                 size. By default, the buffer size is
                                 automatically resized from an initial value
                                 of SIZE.
--playlist-reverse               Download playlist videos in reverse order
--playlist-random                Download playlist videos in random order
--xattr-set-filesize             Set file xattribute ytdl.filesize with
                                 expected file size (experimental)
--hls-prefer-native              Use the native HLS downloader instead of
                                 ffmpeg
--hls-prefer-ffmpeg              Use ffmpeg instead of the native HLS
                                 downloader
--hls-use-mpegts                 Use the mpegts container for HLS videos,
                                 allowing to play the video while
                                 downloading (some players may not be able
                                 to play it)
--external-downloader COMMAND    Use the specified external downloader.
                                 Currently supports
                                 aria2c,avconv,axel,curl,ffmpeg,httpie,wget
--external-downloader-args ARGS  Give these arguments to the external
                                 downloader

I'll experiment with it and let you know what I find out...

[Ricky · Accepted solution]

Was this your 1 month with Hughesnet? If so then your data reset for a few days. So it was like you didn't use any data for 20 days, I believe it is, if you have Gen 5. Yes you will loose what data you don't use. But make sure to keep a eye on it next month.

[maratsade]

"I've tried the speed tests using the site: testmy.net using the 12M download and I get anywhere from 40M to 50M which should be very good. Yet it seems to take a while for a site to come up compared to when I was on dsl with Century Link. Is this just the nature of the beast (latency issue)?"

I experience the same issue -- my speed tests are OK (quite good today before 8 am, then back to my average of about 17).  Browsing seems sluggish compared to when I had Gen 4 and the measured speeds were slower.  Weird.

[GabeU]

@SunBelt57

Just for future reference, when testing your download speed at testmy.net you should use the 25MB test size.  The 12MB test size is for users with Gen4, whereas Gen5 users should utilize the 25MB test size.