No. My performance during peak hours is terrible. It is slightly better than with Gen 4. From about 6 PM EST to 12 or 1 AM, web response is worse than my first 1.5 Mbps DSL connection back in the late 90's (and that was a very unreliable connection). Download speeds are another story. If I download a large file during that time period, or do a speed test, it is pretty fast, generally in the 1-3 Megabyte/s range. But download speeds and user experience are far different things. Webpages often take dozens of seconds to load, DNS errors abound and streaming anything more than 144p takes significant buffering and patience during peak hours. 90% of the time that I get a DNS error, if I look at the modem diagnostics, there is no issue reported and the "state" is normal. "Magically," things get a lot better after peak times. My fastest observed download was about 4.3 Megabytes/s, which is incredible for a satellite beam. Web pages also load in a few seconds. So it bothers me that the majority of senior users in here direct people with these kinds of issues to endless speed tests and hardware troubleshooting when it is clearly a congestion issue that HN told its subscribers wouldn't be an issue on Gen 5 for some time. Why would hardware or configuration issues only cause problems when everyone else has gotten home from work and is using the internet? Honestly, I think it would be great if HN would look into restricting everyone's bandwidth during peak hours to more evenly share the burden. I would be more than happy with a reliable 5 Mbps connection than a highly variable and unreliable 25 Mbps connection.
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