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Speeds worst ever
Please help, since being forced to upgrade to Gen 5 just before Christmas my speeds have been the worst in 16 years. In the last month they have been so bad it takes hours to load. It took an hour of...
Well, hopefully the higher speed will hold. If it doesn't, make sure to run speed tests at different times of the day so you have a sample from sometime in the morning, sometime in the afternoon, and sometime in the evening. Fingers crossed you won't need to.
I don't understand how after months of super slow speeds, tonight's was .05 Mbps. Then after posting this I cam back 1 in the morning. It was an off the chart 47.87 Mbps. How is this possible ? Someone flip a magic switch ? If so, Thank You ! I have not had a speed like that in my 16 years with HughesNet. I realize it will not stay that high, but it has me puzzled. Even an hour later it is still 37.73 Mbps.
The slowness can be due to one of several things, mostly from congestion or MTU timeouts at one or more locations:
1. The satellite beam
2. The groundstation, where the satellite links up to the terrestrial internet
3. The internet backbone that controls the path to the site.
4. The server at the site that you're trying to reach.
I also wouldn't rule out throttling at the backbone for some paths during some times of the day, though that's hard to prove unless you've done a trace route.
Sir you clearly are more Tech savvy than I am. However none of that explains why since Christmas 2021 my speeds have been rivaled by smoke signals. Then miraculously when I ask HughesNet Tech people for help my speeds exceed what I m contracted for. I am not complaining, I am saying Thank You for whatever it is they did. And Thank You to people like you who took the time to answer and educate a little. I just hope this miracle holds up. I hate wasting all my allotted data like I have this month on repeated reloads of my web Browser, Computer and Modem. Only to end up using my grandsons cell phone just to read my emails. Be Safe
My point was that slowness is sporadic: It comes and goes with the tide of people on the internet as well as those on HughesNet. Satellite is more susceptible to this just because of the nature of the beast.
