About MarkJFine

Again, 24.1.1 is not an install problem. If you've exceeded your data, then chances are it's working. You're just using too much of it. ... View more

Not an install problem. You've exceeded your plan and are in FAP. ... View more

Are all the lights lit on the front of the modem? If not, which ones are out? Using a computer connected to the modem, if you go to this status page, what is the "State Code" at the top? Also, what is the "Satellite Receive Signal Strength" at the bottom?   ... View more

@GabeU wrote: people trying to stream at the same time could slow the system to a crawl. I think that's what's happening now. ... View more

@maratsade wrote: Bonus: if HN implemented this, it would allow us to tell people to go FAP themselves.  LOOOOOOOL ... View more

Professionalism is out the window anymore, and the way basic workers get paid I can understand people just doing things for a job. The pay gap started getting bad in the 80s when stockholders and management level bonuses became more important than quality products, reputation and standing for something, and it just kept going downhill from there. Everything is about 'me', 'what do I get out of it', and not the 'collective'.   Sorry... you pushed a button of mine. Don't even get me started on the tax gap.   Suffice it to say, that hacker mentality has also gotten so sneaky that you can't tell real users from fake ones, except that the fake ones typically use old browser strings because the scripts they run are usually older than the last two browser versions.   That is why I went extreme on the one web site, blocking anything that's more than two versions older than what's out in the .htaccess file and on the site's content delivery network. Some real people complain, but they can get off their butts and update their stuff, you know. One person was still using Chrome/35.0 when 78 just came out. I laughed them out the door. I can only imagine the amount of malware on that person's phone/computer. ... View more

I'm guessing it could be implemented by changing the way FAP works. If your usage is less than the FAP level they could allow a switch to temporarily switch FAP on, then allow you to switch it back off only if the usage isn't exceeded.   The problem with this is the expense and trouble to implement such a thing vastly outweighs its utility, especially for the majority of the customers' technical ability and understanding. You have a ton of people on here complaining that there's not enough data (for whatever reason) and don't know how to use the VDS as it is. Why complicate things even further with yet another option that no one else would understand how to use and is just as difficult for admins to explain? Bottom line is really that HN provides you a pipe and provides tools and resources to adequately manage it. How you choose to use that pipe is entirely up to you. "Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should." ... View more

@maratsade wrote: Intriguing! Yeah, it's a simple little script that polls the site's rss feed, takes the most recent titles and posts this image/caption to Twitter: Today on Daily Cannon - 25th Oct 17.01 BST. All this and more at DailyCannon.com/latest/ #ArsenalDaily ... View more

I administer two sites, one of which is a web space on a server in Pennsylvania, hosted on Pair. On that server I have a 'bot' that creates an image from he last 10 posts on another site I administer in Germany, but based in Northern Ireland. The 'bot' then takes the image and creates an automated tweet that gets posted on Twitter. This is a process that is done three times a day.   There are a total of only two hops between the server in Pennsylvania and Twitter, and both hops are to CenturyLink servers on their backbone. Invariably, the login to Twitter times out past 60 seconds at least once per day. Note that HughesNet isn't involved anywhere in this process, and this is a CL-only networkng problem.   I have personally contacted CenturyLink several times over the past year and *they* deny they have problem. What makes you think HughesNet would have better luck convincing them? Or, Pair, my server hosting company in Pennsylvania, who is also affected?   Plus, as @maratsade has already said, HN may be locked into a long term grandfathered contract with Level3 (whom CL bought) and can't go anywhere else or there might not be anyone else.   If you look back a couple of years, (prior to the Level3 buyout) CenturyLink's *backbone crashed* for a week leaving the entire internet in a mess on the West Coast. It was heavily covered on the news.   CenturyLink is a disaster, and they are making everyone using them look bad, but I doubt Pei's government organization will get involved. ... View more

@lighthope1 wrote: Finding where the problem is is far beyond my ability. But using a sample path to only one place and calling it a problem everywhere without proof isn't going to be taken seriously. ... View more

Think you're confusing using TestMy for speed vs using it latency.   Using it for speed has been the way to go in the past because it more or less normalized where the speed tests were going. For whatever reason their results haven't been as reliable as they have been, showing a lot of capture, hold, and release type corruption of the speeds.   Using it for latency (partially for the same reason) is not a good idea, because it will only show the overall latency of a path to them and not really pinpoint the precise location of the problem. That's why a locally run traceroute is best, because it can isolate problems with the route table, the gateway's provider, the server your're trying to reach, or any point in between. ... View more

Doesn't work like that necessarily as the two (addresses and server) might not be related.   There are literally a ton of malware out there that does nothing but send spam using someone's unchecked credentials to access an email server (this is why you should always change your passwords on a regular basis). All you need is a few people to report spam coming from the email server and the IP of that email server goes on the block list.   Usually the malware uses a rotating list of valid addresses (and addressees) for the From, To, and ReplyTo lines in an email. Those are obtained from lists that are easily bought as most services like Facebook now sell them openly as a revenue source. Most people now use a throwaway email address (called a 'honeypot') to collect any spam for this reason. Also, any of those addresses might not necessarily be the person with malware, and usually it's because they want to hide their tracks.   The malware might be from running apps on your phone or computer, or could also be a web site that has been hacked for the purpose of acting as an open relay for this activity.   Web sites are havens for this kind of thing because I'm convinced that the site security on most cloud servers like Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, DigitalOcean, GoDaddy and the like is abysmal. Even worse, the individual sites are run by mostly people who aren't technical and think "wow, wouldn't this be fun." As a result, they don't know to update their software (ever) or check their logs for malicious activity. They just update their blogs completely oblivious that the outside world (75% is from China) has hacked them a gazillion times over.   How this likely relates to what's happening here is really the first two things above - people with malware using HughesNet, and other people using their HughesNet email address to sign up for things. I doubt very much the email server was directly hacked, nor that the two things are the same person. ... View more

If your IP is dynamic, it generally only changes when you reboot your modem. That's irrelevant to your email, which is send from the email server. The IP that's getting trapped by the BL is that of the email server, not your's. ... View more

@JCH wrote: Thanks for the info GabeU, I ran a ping test to Google and got 600 plus or minus millisecs........just what it should be for satellite. Now I'm back to my mystery of good speed tests but off and on and variable slow loading web pages and YouTube buffering. There are generally four common sources for latency: 1. The gateway (ground station) is exhibiting congestion, or 2. The gateway's provider has a bad routing table, or 3. The gateway's provider has an erratic throughput problem (looking at you, CenturyLink), or 4. Someone along the route, including the destination, has a throughput problem. If you do a traceroute, the gateway's provider is whoever owns hop #4.   If the problem is seen during streaming, it might not be a latency, per se. It may be the streaming server looking to acknowledge reception of a video segment and isn't waiting long enough to handle a lag commensurate of satellite internet and is just timing out. That is a lot more common than you'd think. ... View more

I wouldn't go by that latency chart. The only way to test your latency is to do your own pings/traceroutes to several major hosts. ... View more