Forum Discussion
Slow Speeds What's Up ?
Likely a combination of things:
1. It's football season - people stream games. Congestion always increases every fall, especially on Thus evening, and all day Sat/Sun.
2. The weather has been crummy - more people indoors trying to use internet.
3. Hurricanes and general rainy weather (not to mention falling leaves) contributing to poor links between dish and satellite, as well as satellites to ground stations. When links are poor, it causes an increase in repeated packet sends, which inherently increases congestion. You might not be in an affected area, but consider that multiple users around the country that are also routed to your ground station might.
Well, again it's 12 Pm on a Monday, the Hughes speed test is unable to connect with the test server. Not a weekend football, or dwnloading movies time.The State Code is 0.0.0 .
Testmytest speed test was under 200 Kps, or .02 Mps.
The weather is clear in Ca, and South Dakota , where I was switched to after the Gen 6 install.
Speeds are now below 200 Kps every day by noon now. I had 40+Mps Hughes speeds at 4:30 Am pst , which also is the norm.
If this is a congestion problem, I can only look forward to it worsening, unless a solution is implemented. Thanks
Monday evening...
It's 6:30 Pm . Do you know where your internet speed is ?State Code- 0.0.0
eco,
Thank you for following up with the additional speed tests! Your beam is currently being worked on by our engineers, in an attempt to resolve some issues. We appreciate your patience and cooperation!
Thanks,
Remy
Thanks Remy, as usual, always the best !
10.2 I noticed an outage this morning. When I tried later, Hughes was back.
I tried a Hughes speed test, and had a 404 error notice. Under that was a link for the speed test vendor and subscription prices.
Will the Hughes speed test be restored, or are we left with testmytest.com for speed tests? That tested 26+Mps. I will try later in the day to see if the speed problem continues. Thanks.
Wow, the fix is working! Thanks Hughes Techs 🙂
Hughes Speed Testing is still down.
My hopes are dashed 😞 State codes 0.0.0
Update 10.4 -
5 Am speed- 40+ Mps 12:15 Pm speed 28+ Mps.
I see the Hughes speed test is back.
Good work all, thanks
6:26 Pm Pst.
What a change, fast, slow, fast again .Thanks
Update- 10.5 9:15 Am Pst.
Speed .03 Mps State Codes 0.0.0
Good last evening, now not so.
So the Gen 6 satellite cannot handle the congestion ?
Performance is very erratic, a test result of 12 Mps, inbetween .03 , .02 Mps. Is this how it will be? My wife said maybe Sun spots ? , but the data shows the same speed problem weeks before, when it's bad, I cannot use the Hughes speed test, only Testmytest. Thanks ?
eco,
Thank you for following up! As of this time, I haven't received additional updates. Our engineers are working to identify and resolve the area specific issue. We appreciate your patience and cooperation!
Thanks,
Remy
Remy- I look at the state codes when I have the .03 Mps and less sometimes earlier in the day now, even at 12 Pm. The speed is too slow for the Hughes test, so I use Testmytest, the results are nearly the same, but theirs does work. The state code is 0.0.0 , thanks for your reply. I am guessing I'm not the only one on this beam with the problem, why I posted in the discussion forum last nite.
Thanks again 🙂
