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Slow speed and Latency
I think I have everything per instructions, my OS is Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. What ever you need I'll get. This is the Download test at 25mb everything with the laptop identifier is no WIFI; https://testmy.n...
Interesting... Your gateway's provider is Suddenlink (173.219.233.206), which appears to be randomly inserting a 1 second delay... which is not really terrible.
What troubles me is when you open up the wait time to 15 seconds, you have a consistent 10 second delay added between your terminal the satellite, which might indicate some kind of handshaking protocol issue. It's always the second number, not the initial one though... and that's weird.
Are you on Linux natively or running through a VM?
I wasn't sure about the latency data but I threw it in. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 and the downloaded started off good but deteriorated as the download progressed. I just ran a speed test and it is not that far off from the best an almost 30% improvement since I posted this msg. Thank you
That's good that it's improving. It's possible that your speeds took or are taking a bit of a hit due to so many new devices coming online around Christmas and, more or less, bogging down the system with streaming and updates. We're all seeing it to at least some extent. But again, it's good that you're seeing an improvement.
BTW, if you do decide that you want to try a trace route I found these instructions for Linux. They're actually more similar to the instructions for Windows than I thought they'd be.
- The improvement was short lived though occasionally it does show. After running the test again there was a connection error and then a quick reconnect I want to believe there is more going on than I know. I will run the latency test you provided the link to what ever I can. The is another LTS version 20.04 I'll fix 19.04 first. later
Just want to point out that the week or two following Christmas is a real bad time to try to deal with peak time slowness/latency. Tons of people with new stuff that either hasn't been satellite-proofed or needs soft/firmware updates. This, in addition to general load being increased by kids home from school, etc.
Sidenote: It's also interesting to watch how same people automatically come to the conclusion that HN is stealing their data, not realizing their brand new IoT toilets are constantly phoning home.
- Thanks, Mark, for the re-enforcement of known holiday problem, I'm usually one to get things done in the most expeditious manner and this project maybe longer than that. I have Traceroute installed and preliminary indications are that packets are not getting a return ICMP and dropping connections which I would expect. if high net traffic is adding to an already existing problem. I have the man page print out so I'll see if there is an option to compensate.
