The things that affect our speed cannot be controlled unfortunately... as you stated... location, weather and load on the satellite. We're running one Desktop PC and one cell phone via WiFi so there isn't a big demand on our LAN. Even when it's just the PC running it's a crappy connection. And yes I do my automatic updates in the middle of the night at 3 am so it doesn't affect us during normal hours. My original post was not meant to be a "please help me". It was merely
a statement that I wish we had cable service out here, we got spoiled all those years with true "HighSpeed" service and not this crappy Gen4 "highspeed" that Hughesnet advertises. Rant over, thanks for reading.