About MarkJFine

Can always see if the guy will respond. ... View more

Rebooting always pops you into a lesser used IPGW. It will also have the benefit of refreshing the DNS cache, which is always good. Sometimes that thing gets corrupted. I usually end up rebooting at least once a week, because my wife likes to work downstairs, away from the modem, which doesn't always have a good wifi signal. That's usually a good formula for a busted DNS cache. ... View more

I've had this 'conspiracy theory' that whenever the beam takes a sharp decline in performance, there's possibly always one (or two) recently added people to the beam that's bringing it down for everyone. One possibility is the person doesn't realize they're causing their own problem and discontinues, so the beam frees up.   Another possibility is the person was new, in their initial 20-day period, and didn't realize they were consistently dragging it down until they finally hit the Fair Access Policy. Whatever was causing the problem for everyone was therefore relieved.   If the problem was consistent enough, it was likely something like a constantly running HD security camera - usually something that takes a lot of resources and the person wouldn't even think twice about until it finally no longer worked. Of course this is all supposition on my part, but have seen it happen often enough. Performance comes and goes. To be honest, it's probably a lot simpler explanation like the network periodically adjusting the load.   ... View more

Well, it's certainly not a Giants quarterback then. ... View more

Just a thought:   If you're able to use 802.11ac you'll vastly increase lan speed via wifi. By doing so you're increasing the capacity and throughput the router can handle so things don't get locally congested if there are multiple devices active on the system.   That's just for wifi though. You get max throughput using a LAN cable regardless, which is why you want to speed test that way (and with wifi disabled) - it isolates the wifi protocol (as well as strength) out of the equation. ... View more

FYI - The speed issues with VPNs are: 1. The security protocols required can't be used in conjunction with the TCP/Web Acceleration techniques being used, so everything basically works at the uncompressed channel rate. 2. There's a lot of handshaking going on, so take your normal 600mS ping rate and basically multiply it for each packet.   As usual, the severity of how slow it can be is generally geometrically proportional to the level of congestion. If you want to get an idea of just how slow and irregular it can be, ssh into a server and try to type commands... it becomes predictive typing waiting for the echo after a while. lol ... View more

Guess my point is that it really shouldn't matter if it's a tab or a window wrt to the cookies being used for authentication or redirection. ... View more

I'm not really sure what you're asking, but clicking on My Email always opens up a new tab. The way browsers are supposed to work, each tab should be isolated, and in it's own sandbox for security purposes, like a new window would. ... View more

  My login information is in the yellow boxes. I've just obfuscated them here for obvious reasons.   ... View more

So to speak...   A while back, if you got to skylogin first thing in the morning and had a saved password, a box would pop up and all you had to do was enter the password for your password cache and click 'ok', and I was logged into Community. I was always in the habit of hitting 'return' (no coffee) which would almost always send me to the hughesnet phantom zone ("...an error has occurred...").   Well someone fixed that recently by adding a popup that asks for you to enter your creds first. That part works great, but I wonder if that might have impacted the redirect issue. ... View more

Well, here's something interesting. Added authorize.myhughesnet.com and email.hughes.net to my ad blocker's white list, then killed Firefox. Restarted Firefox and went directly to email.hughes.net, which prompted me to log in via skylogin - it did it's thing but sent me back to myhughesnet instead of the email app. Clicked on My Email, and it sent me directly to the email app, which then ran like it did using Chrome.   Great, so I then logged out of the email app and killed the tab. Opened a new tab and went to https://community.hughesnet.com (this site) and it re-started the email app! Clearly skylogin was re-using the cached email authorization cookie, which likely has a redirect on it.   So now I'm thinking there's not only a cookie problem, but something weird going on with the portal that brings all these things together via skylogin. Skylogin should be valiating which authorization cookie to use: email, community or account... it used to, but appears to be just using the last one it saw and redirecting to whatever that was.   It's quite possible that the email js/css was confused when trying to operate on the community web page and that's why it wasn't working properly when I tried it in Firefox before. lol ... View more

Tried Chrome, and it worked as @maratsade said, follwing an initial login. Logged out, then clicked My Email in the upper right, and it reloaded almost immediately using the cached javascript & css without having to log in again.   The only way you can force it to log in again is to kill Chrome completely, then use the My Email link. It will still use the cached versions of js/css from before, but will require you to log in through skylogin.   Based on this, clearly a cookie expiration thing.   Now to find out why Firefox went catatonic... ... View more

Well, I tried usng the webmail in FF. After getting past the login, it attempted to download what appeared to be a very large javascript for about 5 minutes, then stopped and did nothing. I examined the page to see what the javacript (and accompanying css) was named but forgot to copy it down. #oneofthosedays ... View more

6-700MB/hr is about the receive rate for 720p HD. Add to that how much is sent back during handshaking (both are included in usage), which could ~5%. Hopefully you weren't running much lower resolution than that to get to 1.5GB. If you were running 360p or 480p, there might be an issue because those would be significantly less. ... View more

Two things I'm thinking of: 1. The browser retained the login credentials and is automatically logging back in using those credentials, similar to a previously saved login, and/or 2. When you log in a secure cookie is created containing the login information and it's not being properly destroyed upon logout.   Thinking that #2 might be the most likely. ... View more

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night... ... View more

Another possibility is that whatever was doing the streaming may have 'double-clutched' everything. That can happen if  virtually every packet has to be sent 1-3 times from the streaming server. That can happen due to a weak wifi signal. It can also happen in the case of very high latency situations due to congestion, because the streaming server didn't get an ack before it timed out and just resent it. Buffering is a good indication that's actually the case. ... View more

Is it remotely possible that you thought you were watching the downloaded copy, but somehow ended up re-downloading it or watching the streamed version? For example: I once tried to schedule my DirecTV DVR to remotely record a movie off of a channel for watching later, but mistakenly had the DVR download the on-demand version... in 1080p HD no less. Was not a happy camper. ... View more

Really should only be two which are hidden and only for use in conjunction with the booster. the reason they are hidden is so only the booster will recognize it so no one accidentally tries to connect to it. ... View more

Lots of Air Force contractor support in Belleview for Offutt. Could be anything, really.   Edit: Thought that looked familiar. It's only a couple of blocks up from what used to be my divison HQ at Northrop. ... View more

Not sure if it helps, but none of those are used as a groundstation for Echostar 17 (J1). Based on some old info gleaned from the installation data (may have changed), CHY handles 5 spot beams, GIL 7, and NLV only 3. All three service Echostar 19 (J2). Since all are not pointed at one azimuth, it's clear that more than just J2 is being pointed at. Makes sense to me because this can't possibly be the only thing that they do... I'm just thinking of the overhead and staffing costs for those sites, which must be incredible.   Another thought... some of those dishes that are aimed nearly horizontal can't possibly be used for geostationary satellites. Even Wyoming would have a takeoff azimuth to something at the equator. Terrestrial short-range microwave, maybe? ... View more