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Beam 64 corresponds to the ground station in San Diego. Both @maratsade and myself are on a different beam, but that beam is also serviced by San Diego. Lately, I've seen some super long delays at hop where it leaves the ground station and goes out to the internet, since I think that's common amongst all the beams San Diego services, it may be related to that.   State Code 14.3.1 means something on your LAN is frequently disconnecting. It could mean: 1. A bad/intermittent ethernet cable somewhere (if that's what you're using), 2. A device's wifi signal is either weak or intermittent (but I'm not sure abou tthat), or 3. Something is faulty within the modem itself. Might want to wait for an admin that can probe your equipment to see why that code is being generated.   The one thing you can do (if you're using an ethernet cable) is to see if it's connected properly. If it is, try swapping it out with another one you have lying around to see if that fixes the problem. ... View more

Service is advertised literally as "you can watch the latest videos". That means short 3-minute YouTube things, not full scale TV shows and movies. It's also advertised as UP TO 25Mbps, even though a good lot of us see much better than that in the mornings durng the bonus period. Also, show me an ISP that guarantees any speed at any given time of the day... isn't one.   Service is definitely not advertised to fully support VPN at high speed because the acceleration techniques don't support ssl protocols. You can run VPN (and ssh, sftp, and others) but it will be at a much reduced channel rate. It also has a high latency because the signal is travelling a path between 90-95,000 miles. That's how satellite works, unless you want to design a wormhole that shortens the distance from a geosynchronous orbit on the equator to you and an equivalent ground station on the west coast.   So if you didn't know... now you know... or did you miss that part. ... View more

Don't think this is CL because I'm seeing massive delays before it even gets to CL. ... View more

I'm getting concerned, because I think I'm beginning to see the beginnings of this on SDO as well. Real long dropouts, broken pipes during sftp... very strange behavior. ... View more

@Colby  The ground stations in both Boise (where your's is) and Missoula are having issues and are being worked. #patience ... View more

you might want to do it now. It's 4:30 here on the east coast and they leave at 5. ... View more

I want mine to stop... lol ... View more

Or, it could be that Missoula is still having problems... ... View more

60 seems low, given that there's no precip in your area, and could mean that packet errors are causing resends. That would also cause slowness.   It could mean you may need a dish alignment, however it's also possible that your ground station (Missoula, MT) is having an issue. Recommend waiting for an admin to check things for you. They're not here on the weekends. ... View more

Honestly, don't want to hold anyone back from upgrading, but it would seem that the current issue isn't due to old equipment on your side. ... View more

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There are a couple of ground station sites that are apparently having issues and are currently being worked on. It's possible they could be replacing equipment or software, which may necessitate bringing the ground station down temporarily. This would defnitely cause what you are seeing.   We've seen a few going through Boise (BOI) seeing issues. Likewise, this is the second one that's shown Missoula (MIS) - so that site might be in flux as well.   This may be a transitory situation requiring a day or so until they've properly worked things out. ... View more

<cynical>Seems the trend is that no one reads old posts before asking (or opining on) anything, so you're safe.</cynical> ... View more

They advertise, in HughesNet's specific language is: "...watch the latest videos...". Meaning short, one-minute Youtube videos, not feature length TV shows or movies. Nowhere do they advertise "speeds that support Netflix and other streaming platforms". And again: THE ISSUE IS LATENCY, NOT SPEED, learn the difference.   If your intent is to poke fun at the arbitrary 'title' the site gives me so you can childishly make yourself feel superior, have at it, bless your heart. ... View more

The DirecTV box will be connected to the internet whether it's turned on or off. 'Off' for the DirecTV box is just a standby mode. The only way to completely disconnect it from the internet is to unplug the lan cable from the back of it, or reset the internet connections in it's settings.   Likewise, turning the TV off just puts it in standby as well. So if you have it its internal wifi set to use HughesNet it will use it at will until you've removed the TV's wifi settings from the TV.   All this said, some devices may still show as being connected in the Connected Devices for a while after disconnecting. Sometimes the list just needs to be refreshed. ... View more

Seems to me you're interpreting the empirical evidence without knowing the rationale behind it.   Not all connections are the same. Not all paths to different sites are the same. More so, not all sites contain the minimal parts to support efficient transfer over a high latency satellite internet connection. TestMy has proven to be the most consistent and efficient in that regard, and is used in attempt to remove all possible variables.   Thinking it's hard-wired is an incorrect assumption. You can either follow the protocol if want your problem addressed... or not and just deal with it. ... View more

Some ideas: 1. Check to see if there are any applications or operating system updates that want to self-update. May want to turn off all automatic updates off on all devices (phones, computers, etc.). You may want to do all that stuff manually during the Bonus time from 2-8am. 2. Check to see if you have a satelite or cable TV box connected to the internet. They are notorious for freely using a lot of bandwidth for on-demand programming (5GB/hour in HD), as well as for secretly augmenting on-screen program grids, program searches, on-screen apps (weather, sports updates, etc.) and other stuff. 3. Just like on-demaind programming, any kind of streaming (HBOMax, Netflix, Hulu, etc.) will also eat up your bandwidth at a rate of about 5GB/hr in HD (on-demand is basically streaming). 4. Any large-scale cloud usage (disk backups, Google Drive, etc.) or web-based office apps (Google Sheets, etc.) will all use your internet like a space heater spins your electric meter. I found this out the hard way. ... View more

Mac's have it built in, but it's not a persistent thing. Activity Monitor (in Applications/Utilities) has a Network tab where it shows what different applications are using at that time. Once the application is killed, the accumulated network usage data goes with it. It does keep track of the total usage since the machine was turned on at the bottom of the window.   Edit: I should add that if you use a media server the amount of streaming that it does will also show even if it's serving a TV on your local lan and not going out through the internet. ... View more

Unfortunately, admins are not here on weekends, but maybe some of us can help you out.   There's a set amount such that the test is standardized: Download test should be 25MB, and Uploads are either 4 MB (I think) - looks like you used those for the last 3 or 4 tests, so I'll ignore the first ones: 1. Your uploads a little slow (max is ~3Mbps). The difference is likely congestion. 2. Your downloads are way down, but it looks like you're in FAP mode which limits you to 3Mbps. Have you exhausted your data plan? You can use a browser on a computer that's connected to the modem and check that by going here. "Service Data Plan" is what you want to look at. ... View more

Email addresses are 100% case insensitive. There's no difference between Lngtm@hughes.net and lngtm@hughes.net, unless someone mistook a capital 'i' or the number '1' instead of a small 'L'. ... View more