A couple minutes after sending this email, I was able to start streaming and watch Netflix without buffering every 30 seconds for essentially the first time since the install.
I also noticed that on the Hughes Net app on my cellphone, it no longer pops up a dialog saying it is running a System Diagnostic, which it has been doing, again, since the install.
Further today, I am able to carry on a conversation on Teams reasonably well.
As a guess, was the "system diagnostic" throttling my data?
I did notice that when I did a file transfer previously it would send say 100 Mbytes, and then completely hang and never resume. If I restarted the transfer, it would do exactly the same thing.
Nice high throughput and then suddenly stop. TCP backoff and retry should have allowed the file transfer to complete eventually, not go from full speed to completely blocked.
This is another indicator that your gateway may have been blocking continuous throughput, even
though for short bursts I could see full bandwidth. Thus the speed tests worked fine, but the
actual performance was blocked. Sound like a reasonable explanation?
I've been using the Internet all day today, including Teams calls successfully with very reasonable response. If that isn't what changed, perhaps your diagnostics can determine what did.
The weather hasn't changed, and I assume the average use of the system hasn't changed.
Would like to see this level of performance continue.
Thank you,
David
