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03-14-2021
03:48 PM
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Unfortunately speed has very little to do with buffering. Buffering is from latency, congestion, and how streaming servers deal with those factors from satellite internet providers (e.g., not very well)
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03-12-2021
10:23 AM
...or not work at all because of it.
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03-07-2021
10:03 AM
I've noticed this happen when the congestion is extrememly high. I assume what's happening is there is a 'heartbeat' connection to the web acceleration server that just times out. It then assumes it's unreachable and automatically disables it. Sometimes rebooting will get you on a better connection, but as you've seen that is not always the case. When the congestion is that high there's a possibility that you're already on the most reliable channel available.
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02-23-2021
06:48 AM
Not necessarily a HughesNet caching issue (actually I don't think they cache at all), but the latency may be playing a part in the browser recognizing the page had changed. Killing the tab, opening a new one, then loading and optionally shift-refreshing the page should update the browser. Also, if your site is cached if it is behind a Content Delivery Network (CDN) like Cloudflare (more like a large network of caches). You may have to purge everything in the CDN's cache before doing the above. Sometimes I even have to purge when making changes to my .htaccess file, not just pages. I seem to go through this all the time regardless of what network I'm using.
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02-19-2021
08:09 PM
1 Kudo
I'm pretty sure most people don't read these things before posting anything, especially the whingers...
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02-18-2021
09:21 AM
There's at least 5-6" of snow on the ground already in NJ. My wife says just a little sleet in Fauquier.
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02-18-2021
08:48 AM
I understand there's lots of icing in DelMarVa but not a lot of snow. Lots of snow in Central NJ (8A, lol) right now. It's like the tundra up here.
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02-18-2021
08:11 AM
4 Kudos
As everyone knows, Texas is experiencing power outages state-wide due to their extreme weather (I'll try to keep my other opinions to myself for the other reasons). This presents a few problems: 1. If your gateway is in El Paso (ELP), your modem might be operational, but you'll have no connectivity to the internet because there's essentially nothing for your modem to connect to in order to get to the internet. Nothing really can be done until power is restored to El Paso, and that may be limited if the site is subjected to rolling blackouts. 2. The internet provider of other gateways will have to dynamically re-route around places in Texas where there's no power. Again, if those sites are experiencing rolling power outages it may be hit and miss, and hopefully VERY dynamic. 3. If the site you're trying reach is IN Texas, well... it goes without saying that will be hit and miss as well. Keep in mind this severe weather is now moving Eastward, so both 2 and 3 above may not be limited to just Texas for the next few days.
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02-18-2021
07:59 AM
@maratsade wrote: Looks like your gateway is in El Paso, TX. Right now they're having a huge issue with their grid, plus serious weather issues, and these two things might be what's affecting your equipment. Several web sites are down because no power in TX as well.
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02-14-2021
02:06 PM
2 Kudos
When it's fixed, you should be able to block by the domain name, e.g. *@zedline.com. That should stop it for a week until the domain changes. Admins may want to relay this to the engineers: Majority of spam will come from web servers that have been compromized by hacked web site plugins as a means to get around checks to the RBL, but it doesn't last long. That said, it's best for the email server to check the HELO IP of incoming messages against an RBL and reject as appropriate. It's one of the best defenses to kill this beast. The current checker they have in place doesn't seem to be doing this.
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02-13-2021
07:19 PM
I'm having a blast with these things. It's really gotten me back into radio. I mainly use the RTL-SDR for experimenting with HD Radio (nrsc5, nrsc5-gui on github) and a trunk tracker called SDRTrunk (also on github). All my DXing is done on the AirSpy HF+ Discovery using Gqrx and a thing called SdrDx. The AirSpy is a lot better with sensitivity and dynamic range/image rejection than the RTL-SDR, especially on HF. The RTL-SDR runs a little hot too, so it may be very possible that it has a bad solder joint somewhere. Edit: Forgot to add that on HF the AirSpy does especially well with digital signals. I can output a DRM signal through a virtual audio cable and decode it using Dream, or do something similar using SDR# in a Windows VM and pipe the audio into MultiPSK. Working more signals than I ever did with my NRD-535D!
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02-13-2021
11:42 AM
The DNS server wouldn't account for the DNS cache inside the modem getting corrupted. In fact, the DNS cache getting corrupted is likely more an indirect result of many DNS queries during a lengthy ping gap. As far as what's causing the gap, it could be anything from a bad Operating System upgrade, to some hardware inadvertently tying up processing. Something I've even seen lately while using an RTL-SDR is that they can wreak havok if the USB connection is disturbed, almost to the point of causing cyclic kernel panics on my Mac. As an aside, my AirSpy HF+ is a much better device for HF and limited VHF (and isn't as finicky), but the RTL-SDR goes DC-daylight and is best for monitoring trunked comms.
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02-13-2021
09:54 AM
Looks as if something jammed up the modem, which re-powering solved. The inability to contact the acceleration server was a symptom of that, but not the likely reason. This is also likely separate from the lag issue. Incidentally, whenever I see something like that - to include not being able to reach a particular web site - that's the first thing I do: re-power and clear the modem's DNS cache. I wish there was a more expedient method to solve it but there isn't. I still find the high lags very curious. You, maratsade and myself are all on the same beam and we don't experience anything quite that high. This points to something local to you. Has your modem ever been replaced? Installation inspected? Or, perhaps something on your computer is interfering with the TCP stack?
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Re: Hughes.net emails are all spam. Unusable and y...
02-11-2021
02:18 PM
02-11-2021
02:18 PM
Seems the only spam I see is coming from you! Knock it off.
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02-11-2021
06:54 AM
1 Kudo
@GabeU wrote: And remember, this is data transfer rate, not data amounts like storage. Helps to know how it's being transferred
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02-10-2021
09:02 PM
A Byte is a character. Multiple bits make up a character. Depending upon the number of control bits, there could be between 8-12 bits per Byte. I use 10 as a general rule, going back to the old signalling days when you had 8 data bits, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit and no parity bits. Therefore, using simple conversion math: 1,000,000 Byte 10 bits 10,000,000 bits 1MBps = -------------------- * ---------------- = --------------------- = 10Mbps sec 1Byte sec
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02-09-2021
09:28 PM
As long as the port forwarding is within your local LAN you can back the router into one of the modem's 4 ethernet ports in the back. Port forwarding for things that need to communicate outside of your LAN won't work because your modem on the HughesNet network is behind a double-NAT. Incidentally, this also provides a natural firewall since no one can access your LAN from outside the HN network.
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02-09-2021
09:06 AM
Guarantee this is not a HN-specific thing, though. I see the same kind of spam on accounts other than on HN, which are evading spam detection. There's been a rash of it for about a month now.
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02-08-2021
11:42 AM
4 Kudos
Although what Liz says is true for legit advertisers, please be careful that the email is from who it says it is. If the "From" address looks sketchy or doesn't seem to match the product, I'd advise not hitting Unsubscribe. In those cases the link is used to verify a live email account and somtimes may lead to even more spam.
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02-07-2021
08:05 PM
1 Kudo
Could be a bunch of reasons. One that I know of in particular is that a recent batch has been very effective at avoiding spam detection. Another possibility is that when HN moved the email accounts there was a problem where the particular folders were named different from where the new email system was supposed to deliver the spam (folder named 'Spam' vs. 'Junk').
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02-07-2021
01:55 PM
1 Kudo
Stop using your hughesnet email address to sign up for things and as a userid... that's how you can stop getting spam.
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02-07-2021
11:54 AM
2 Kudos
I'm a former Operations Manager for a large defense contractor, not HughesNet, but the management issues are no different. I wouldn't expect a layman to understand, nor read the disclaimer underneath my posts.
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02-07-2021
11:32 AM
2 Kudos
@jliston924 It's called effectively managing a positive cash flow, which is extremely important in a high-overhead, high-risk business like ISPs and Telcos, especially ones that are satellite-based.
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02-05-2021
05:22 AM
I have no clue what you're trying to do, but as I implied, you're not going to get a fully qualified domain name for the DNS.
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02-04-2021
07:45 PM
Pretty sure the HughesNet DNS is only accessable from within HughesNet for security reasons.
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01-30-2021
10:50 PM
1 Kudo
If you mean using a yagi to beam the wifi, I'm pretty certain you can't do that with this modem. You have to use the internal omnidirectional antenna, which is matched to the wifi chip, or whatever setup you have using an external router.
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01-26-2021
08:17 AM
1 Kudo
Sometimes the issue is cause by a busted DNS. Powering down the modem by unplugging the power from the wall socket, waiting a minute, then plugging it back in will generally fix that.
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