About MarkJFine

My OCDs hated being told I was in Odessa, MO anyway.   ... View more

@Maryclay wrote: The first month we used 7 devices and even streamed Netflix and other things and i didnt use but 1GB a day on average. During the 20 days your usage was reset on at least a daily (and sometimes hourly) basis to make sure things are working correctly. There is no way to tell how much you were using unless you had a router that metered all of the devices being used.   @Maryclay wrote: I had all of my devices off with no internet connection except my phone when i talked to hughesnet By 'talked' was this typing messages or voice chat? Some phones use the internet to augment voice calling when cell signal is marginal. It's an automatic thing that's set that way by default unless you explicitly disable it. ... View more

Usually when you see something like 'Limited Access', it means one of the settings for your computer's wifi isn't right. Usually that's the DNS setting, but it really could be anything, to include a statically set IP address that's out of range. Make sure everything is set to 'DHCP' or 'Automatic' and that should clear it. ... View more

Lost me right after "Desktop Alien" ... View more

1. Quit the Usage Meter from it's menu by clicking on the donut in the menubar and clicking "Quit" in the dropdown menu. 2. Look for the "Library/Application Support" folder under your home folder. 3. Send the whole "HughesNet Usage Meter" folder under that to the trash can and empty the trash. 4. Restart Usage Meter. It will regenerate that folder you deleted but it will contain corrected information that fixes the error.   Other recommendations say to uninstall and reinstall the app and/or update Java, but those do absolutely nothing to fix the problem. ... View more

Just to echo that it's not a user capacity issue, when these slowdowns occur there isn't the typical and similar slowdown in upload speed or drastic increase in latency. There is something completely different at play which could range from people using an unhandled streaming protocol, to a bunch of users being infected with particular malicious malware/virii, to routing backlogs from the gateway provider, to a possible system denial of service attack (although possible, not as likely). Any of these might be causing the sytstem undue processing which would then affect all users on a particular gateway/beam, and each is extremely difficult to track down and eliminate. But each would also be more noticible under heavier usage times - as a good lot of us is seeing.   Edit: Case in point. Just did ul and dl tests at 7.30 EDT. Download was a choppy 12.02Mbps (ranged between 6.03 and 20.4), but the latency was 350ms and upload was 2.44Mbps. ... View more

Honestly, it will come. Something's not right at the moment with DLs but this is definitely not a user-loading situation because the UL speed and overall latency is fine.   Pretty sure that once they find the culprit(s) this system will fly. ... View more

lol... All I see are assumably your results when I click that link:   ... View more

The default is to show all HughesNet results, not just yours. If you you'd like to see just yours, click "Results" (it says "My Results") underneath. ... View more

@gowest wrote: Your defensiveness, vagueness, and not coming clean about it even being your hidden network when first asked about it (I was on the phone for 3 hours the first time I tried to find out about it, and NO ONE at HN 'knew' that it was yours... kept insisting it wasn't coming from your router...) only serves to make people search for the answers for themselves and be suspicous of your honesty. Did you ever think that the reason why you're suspicious of things that you don't understand are because the sites you visit are making you that way?   I read through that Health Impact News and (as a health and fitness nut, myself) the things they talk about are not only flat out superstitious nonsense, but extrememly dangerous to be taken as anything more serious than an infomercial for the garbage they sell. They prey on people who are easily swayed by repeated 'alternative concepts' that have no basis in fact in order to promote themselves as the only credible authority on a subject... technically, that's called a 'con job'. ... View more

The *.nelottery.com part of the email address means nothing. Spammers often steal pseudo-valid but fake email addresses/domains in order for them to pass certain SpamAssassin tests. What matters is the final IP address from where the HN email server received them, which indicate the open relay(s). That's what you want to block, not the email address. ... View more

@gowest wrote: However 5G is 5Ghz which is what the article is speaking about and IS ALSO what the Hidden Network is broadcasting in.  It is a radio wave frequency. And that's your take after reading the first line? "When the Federal Communication Commission (***) approved the use of 5-G microwave communication technology in 2016 and approved the use of microwave frequencies in the 30 Ghz range"   They expliityly said 30 GHz not 5 GHz. 30 GHz (5G telephone system) is way up the frequency spectrum from 5 GHz wifi (your modem). In fact it's well above the transmission channels (~18-20 GHz) used for dish-to-satellite comms on the J2 beams. So you clearly do not understand what you're talking about.   @gowest wrote: 5th Gen is the name of the HN system. Correct, but you honestly think Hughes has a monopoly on all things considered 5th Generation technologies?  This article has zero to do with Hughes or your modem whatsoever.   I can't wait until you find out that the frequency used by the 2.4 GHz wifi is the same one you use to cook TV dinners in your microwave oven (albeit a much different power level). In fact, chances are your LTE phone system operates at a frequency lower than 2.4 GHz.   Look, please, don't believe everything you read on the internet unless it comes from an accredited source. Like, (almost) everybody knows this.   If you've learned nothing from the past 12 - 24 months, there are plenty of disreputable sources that love to make some crusade out of a set of ridiculous assumptions (I tried real hard not to use the term 'conspiracy theory') that make zero techinical sense, just to fool you into being a slave to their agenda.   Don't be that guy. ... View more

@gowest wrote: Do a little research on your own, its all on the internet if we look. So is Alex Jones... just saying.   Just so you're not confused by the terminology, the '5G' you're reading about are 5th Generation mobile phone signals (not to be confused with 4G, LTE, etc) coming from cell towers in your area, not 5 GHz wifi transmissions coming from your modem.   And again, the 'hidden signal' is not an additional radio signal coming from the modem, it's part of the one that already there and radiating, just an additional ID for it.   If you want the hidden signal gone then turn off your 5G wifi and buy your own router. I don't understand why this is so hard.   Edit: Or better yet, disable all of the wifi entirely and use a cable if you don't want the extra radio signals in your home. ... View more