About MagicPhysicist

I know for some reason you like to have us start a new thread about the same subject but it just makes more threads about the same subject......and I am not new to computers or microwave communications and I only have a couple posts here since I know nobody here can/will do anything about it.   I have been a alpha tester for Microsoft since 2000 and own 9 computers I built and they are top of the line. I also have worked for CERN since 2004 doing alpha tests for the Large Hadron Collider. I never once said I needed help as far as that FAP goes and the data used up in one week.......I just stated a fact. And one of the other facts and the only one I have been talking about is AFTER that data is used the throttle down speed is NOT supposed to be LESS than 1Mbps. AND the upload speed is NOT supposed to be 4 times faster than the download speed AFTER that data is used up. IF it was the opposite as it should be and the d/l was 3.5Mbps and the u/l was slowed down to 800Kbs I would not have the problems here at all. I do NOT care if it takes longer to SEND but I do care when I have a download speed of 500-800Kbs since that means what I do is STOPPED and I tend to have to stay up until 4am every day hoping to get my work STARTED.   I always point out the facts and make them easy to read by anyone since I work helping thousands of people around the planet with computer data processing and programming along with making the CERN LHC actually work.   AND I don't make a dime doing it BUT I do pay lots of money and I just like to get what I was told I would get......and if THAT happened I would not be here at all.   -Samson Ben Yoseph CERN   ... View more

Mine is no better than 850Kbps 24/7 download but for some reason the upload is faster and it has been this way for 3 weeks of each month. I NEVER play games or watch movies. It is even slow checking emails and it isn't any problem with my computers and my Gen5 is less than 3 months old. It only runs normal the first week of each month until the data is used up and it drops down to 850Kbps or worse and I test it after midnight and several times during the day and night.     ... View more

I have the newest  HughesNet Gen5  I am a former microwave communications engineer and built my first satellite dish (C-band/KU-band) in 1982 and I know satellites have been in the sky for over 50 years and this is Hughes new satellite launched in March 2017 I had the old Telstar satellite here and Westar back in the 80's and it sure seems we should be farther advanced than this.   I could have faster and better and cheaper if I moved to downtown Seattle but I will never move from where I am on the Olympic Peninsula (since 1971) so satellite is all I can have (Centurylink DSL was pitiful yet they claim they are the best on tv commercials 24/7) Thanks for the reply Mike and sorry about posting this here. (delete it if you must)   I do have several computers doing data processing and they do send and recieve BUT after they get work I unplugged the ethernet cables just so they can't communicate with the Hughes satellite until they are ready to send back data about 18 hours later. So for $84 per month I expect this to be better than that since my phone and satellite TV bill combined is the same amount. I always find it strange that we have to pay monthly for these modems since they actually are not worth that much (CenturyStink didn't even ask for me to return the one I paid for monthly and unplugged a couple months ago so that shows what a modem is worth) I can't believe that people can use the Gen5 to watch videos like Netflix all the time and all the other movies and not run out of the high-speed in one week just like I did and I didn't even watch any movies or videos or music with this 30GB +50   In fact I always do the same thing yet the month I had the 20GB plan it lasted 20 days......so I switched to 30GB hoping that would take care of that last 10 days........well you can see it didn't.   Not much you can do about this other than making that *Bonus* a nightly part of the current plans or make the 100GB version for the price of the 30GB   Like I said I am retired but I volunteer to do special data processing and programming for a certain high-energy physics project. (Alpha testing) Thanks for the reply Mike and sorry about posting this here. (delete it if you must) ... View more

JUST GREAT   I figured if I said anything here it would be a jinx I stay up until 2am for that "bonus" and what do I get?? ZERO  Bonus Zones   It said I used it all which is impossible since it was 15 minutes after 2am and before I did this I had the ethernet unplugged on the computer end like I do just to save GB.   So now this will be a disaster (gee thanks).........I can't wait until tomorrow night where it says how many hours I have to wait for that "Bonus" and see if it will just be running at 2GB like it does all day (except a couple times when the server was down and I had to restart the modem a couple times) My stuff is all new top of the line dish and modem and my computers are data processors (several 8-core 24GB ram) They don't use a single MB when the ethernet isn't plugged in. Several speed tests just now giving me only 2GB   Something tells me I will switch back to the 20GB ... View more

  30.0   GB   in your plan 0.0   MB   remaining 23 days remaining in your billing cycle   Good thing I never watch videos or any Netflix or even play a youtube video of just one old song. The problem isn't my modem or my dish or any of my computers (I will never own a cell phone either) The problem is that 30GB is nothing and I should have stayed with the 20GB plan just to save the money over the year, AND it would be completely foolish to try the 50GB plan since it would disappear and be right back to zero with 12 days remaining. Hughesnet works fine if it just stayed at the original speed and raise that limit to [b]100GB[/b].....bad enough that I have to wait until 2am to recieve data and do something as simple as the server hand-shake every 90 minutes. During the day * if * I have to d/l 1.1GB it will take close to 8 hours........**bleep** that is as bad as CenturyStink DSL I am not d/ling movies or pictures......just data to be processed by my computers......and I don't make a dime doing it..   ... View more