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08-09-2017
09:32 AM
@Amanda Not a problem, glad to help where I can.
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08-09-2017
07:01 AM
I use Filezilla routinely for remote ftp and sftp connections. There should not be any special settings required to get it to work.
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08-08-2017
08:08 PM
@jcocke23 The bursting and pausing is very symptomatic of congestion because you're dependent upon the available bandwidth wrt to ebb and flow of everyone else's usage at the same time. That's true of any internet provider, really. And, I do have to say that Gen5 has generally handled congestion a lot better than Gen4 did. 20' is a rather long wait for the modem to come back. Typically it's back within 2-5'. I've seen some instances where it took an especially long time for the 5GHz wifi to finally settle and connect on the older 3.4.3.33 code, but 3.4.3.35 has been much quicker and a lot more stable on reboots. That may have been a 'blip' but it may also depends upon how many things it's trying to re-connect with.
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08-08-2017
03:10 PM
1 Kudo
Doing some research in the process of building a 2-tiered spam blocker based upon the IP-blocks of known spamhauses. An email marketing HughesNet happened to fall into my 'trap' that was bulk-sent through Salesforce/ExactTarget. Just so happens that the IP (13.111.30.79, mta.mailfromhughes.com) is also registered under spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net. I'd highly recommend not using ExactTarget for bulk email if you want to stay off the dnsbls. If it makes anyone feel better, I've trapped an email from the IEEE Radar group, also using ExactTarget. So it's more a reflection of the method than the subject or company being represented.
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08-08-2017
07:33 AM
2 Kudos
@jcocke23 Short answer: it does have something to do with your issue. If I'm on the same satellite, gateway, and beam as you (and we are) but different outroutes but see different levels of slowness, the problem can be ruled out as being from those three points. The only thing different is the outroute (which may have it's own share of congestion and/or routing issues) or your equipment (dish transceiver, alignment, foliage/weather effects, modem, router, wifi and/or cabling, computer, etc.). You can try to change outroutes by powering down or rebooting the modem to force a reassociation and see if the condition improves on another outroute. Congestion itself isn't scientific and can be perceived subjectively: Even though I saw greater than usual congestion Monday evening on the outroute I was reassigned, I was still able to download, post-produce and upload/post a 45MB podcast in a reasonable amount of time at ~8pm ET. Some days it's going to be better or worse than others, but you know that statistically it's going to be greater in the evenings when most people aren't at work.
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08-07-2017
09:07 PM
@GabeU wrote: Now I'm on 0102. I guess it changed after the software update. We had biblical levels of rain in the DC area today. The Mustang nearly 'surfed' on the way back from food shopping. So naturally the modem dropped in and out as signal quality dropped below threshhold. When the modem re-associated with the gateway I was on 0101. The outroute can change depending upon load or whichever is free at the time, but the gateway and beam can not.
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08-07-2017
06:56 AM
Problem is that uninstalls typically leave things behind, like settings files and registry clutter.
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08-06-2017
07:12 PM
I would also delete the cache file: "Local Storage/file__0.localstorage" and let it regenerate too, if you can find it in the Windows hierarchy. If the settings file is corrupted, chances are it's also corrupted.
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08-06-2017
06:55 PM
1 Kudo
I could do that. But then I'd have to deal with customers who are always unhappy because their toys are broken. "Hold my beer..." 😳
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08-06-2017
05:49 PM
The tools cost ~$20. I may have added one of those silly lighted magnifying visors for $7 just to get free shipping. Conversely, Apple would have charged me $75 for just talking to me at the Apple Store... A replacement A1417 battery is only ~$60 and probably could have replaced it at the same time had I ordered one at the same time.
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08-06-2017
07:24 AM
2 Kudos
...all depends on your definition of fun. Seems this is a common problem, and not all videos give you the right method to do this. The trackpad on my early-2013 15" retina had been acting up with the usual signs of age recently: lots of pressure to click or no click at all, making click-drags really frustrating. So I got one of those Tekton Everybit tool sets from Amazon yesterday. All I needed was the 1.2mm PL to open the back, and a T4 to unscrew the middle section of the battery (which looks like a bomber's vest I might add). Apparently the adhesive on the metal plate that sits between the middle two battery segments and the back of the trackpad had gotten the exposed portions of trackpad "stuck". Just pulling the segment up and away from the trackpad and blowing out any debris fixed it. #chuffed Problem was most likely from the battery swelling after years of getting hot. Battery is at 80% capacity and probably needs to be replaced in a few months... To be continued.
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08-05-2017
12:56 PM
Short answer is: maybe. Browsers are starting to come out with things like this, usually combined with a proxy/pseudo-VPN feature. Opera is one of these, and I've seen some people use something similar for Chrome in web logs. Just a guess, but what these things typically do is pre-load the parts of a web page you're trying to view and do a bunch of optimization things: set browser cache expirations, minimize css and js code, ensure images are compressed, etc. In theory it would save a little bit of data, however, it also adds an extra layer of processing on top of what Hughes' web acceleration schemes are doing. How that works together might have varying results. Not sure the end result would give you any noticeable speed increase or data savings. On top of that you'd be adding another player in the loop that's monitoring your browsing habits... so there's a security aspect as well. Disclaimer: I really hate those things from a web admin perspective, because I see a ton of anonymous malicious bots running behind Amazon AWS, OVH France, and a bunch of random Opera and Chrome VPN "users" in Nigeria (et. al.). All of these use such proxies for nefarious purposes and I seriously dislike giving random X-Forwarded IPs the "403" treatment when they're dynamically assigned.
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08-05-2017
10:00 AM
Usually pretty good weather there as well in LA. Worst you'd see is some morning marine layer clouds, but they burn off between 10 PT, noon PT tops. What's key is the beginning of the gateway string: JnGGGbbb where: Jn = Jupiter sat number, starting with "J" G = Gateway location trigraph b = beam number
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08-04-2017
11:30 AM
Unofficial, unscientific streaming test: Just used Spotify on my iPhone outside to play a regular ~55 minute album at standard quality (I think they use 128kHz faac for that) which used ~70MB. That seems about right. This isn't the ultimate test I was planning using images, just a quick measurement from a target of opportunity while other house members weren't bogarting bandwidth. Really didn't think streaming audio was an issue, tbh, and this provides some confirmation of that.
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08-04-2017
08:28 AM
3 Kudos
This issue has been marked by the OP several times as being solved. Think it needs to be locked down and stowed by the admins (if that's still possible) so it can't continue to feed on itself.
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08-03-2017
09:10 PM
No one was attacking you, yet you seem to be taking a lot of this personally. This conversation is done as far as I'm concerned. Have a nice day.
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08-03-2017
06:59 PM
I'm sorry you feel that several people who have tried to properly inform you didn't give you the answer you wanted. That's not being rude, it's trying to be informative. Quite frankly, the only one who continues to take a rough tone in this thread has been you, but we've overlooked that. Again, I'm sorry you feel this way, it is certainly not our intent.
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08-03-2017
08:18 AM
1 Kudo
@maratsade "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men..."
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08-03-2017
07:57 AM
@maratsade I'm like 3' from the modem so that could be it. I probably should go direct wired, but I hate those thunderbolt-to-ethernet adaptors - they get pretty hot!
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08-03-2017
07:21 AM
@maratsade May have to click the Scan button, wait, and repeat until it shows. I think it just goes on periodically and you have to catch it at the right time.
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08-03-2017
06:05 AM
@maratsade Little bit Mac trick I picked up once: 1. Hold down Ctrl+Opt and click on the wifi symbol in the menu bar. An expanded menu will show with gobs of useful information. 2. Click on Open Wireless Diagnostics in that menu. A window will appear, but what you want is the menu for it in the menu bar. 3. Choose Window->Scan from the menu bar. A wifi scanner window will appear showing all of the wifi signals in the area. 4. Clicking the Scan button to refresh the display, because the signal with the blank SSID won't show immediately (which is why I don't think it's actually 'on' all the time, either). You will be able to tell which one it is because it has all the same markers as the main wifi network it belongs to (mac address, security, protocol, etc.) Clearly there's lots more to this. It used to be available from the Utilities folder and I have no idea why they took it out.
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08-02-2017
09:23 PM
So clearly the answer is "NO". Oh well... Sorry to hear that. Can't please everyone.
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08-02-2017
09:18 PM
When was the last time you were given notice of an update and what was in that update. Does it help you to know that I was formerly in the cyber security buisness for a major defense contractor and I'm still telling you there's no issue?
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08-02-2017
09:14 PM
I've been in the area since '87. It is so much different now you wouldn't believe.
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08-02-2017
09:07 PM
1 Kudo
Popeyes is a bit heavy for me. Closer in to DC there are a lot of Chilean and Peruvian chicken places and they are awesome. You haven't lived until you've had half an Andean chicken breast with fried plantain. Not as awesome as that, Gainesville is now one of the few places in the US to have a (cheeky) Nandos.
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08-02-2017
08:23 PM
1 Kudo
I still want it to deliver my coffee. Breakfast Blend or Pikes Place... either one will do.
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