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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?
Unfortunately, though testmy's speed results tend to be accurate, their latency readings very often aren't. They can be wildly off. I'm not really sure of the reason why. With that said, the latency link you gave is to the test, but the results shown are actually old tests from various users.
The most accurate latency readings you can get are by running a trace route from your computer to a few different websites, whether using the URL or IP address.
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.
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.
@MarkJFine wrote: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.
They're just flushing their data away!!! 😛 😛 😛
Sorry to take this thread a little off topic, but I just couldn't resist. When I read what you wrote that thought immediately came to mind.
@GabeU wrote:
They're just flushing their data away!!! 😛 😛 😛
I was waiting for someone with a follow-up.
🥁 <cymbal crash>
Is that first link the results? What file format is it, as I can't open it with anything I have. Is it text (it's only 5.9KB)?
Ah, Libre. I actually have it, but I hadn't tried using it The file itself just says "file" for the type, so I thought maybe it was something I didn't have, though I completely forgot about Libre and it wasn't showing up in my options. But, it opened just fine using it.
With that said, overall it looks pretty good. A couple of higher ones, but most of them fit within the expected range. It took me a couple second to remember what you said about the pauses when I saw those 10,000+ results. My jaw dropped. 😛
I'm not really sure what to make of the dead hops and where they are in the results, but Mark may. Dead hops do often appear in trace routes, though, so it may be normal. Whenever I run a trace route there is nearly always one or two.
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?
There's no gateway (ground station) in Ashburn. They're all west of the Mississippi.
What's the IPGW ID when you go here?
AMA is Amarillo, TX, which kind of makes sense. Suddenlink is based in Tyler.
So, if you're in Oakdale (Modesto), your round trip distance to Satellite, Amarillo is twice 48,766mi. So, minimum possible overall lag is 522.65mS not including processing time.