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@GabeU,@Amanda, Gabe ping times are still way too long last checked 1.9 and 2.0 sec. Slow enough that even this site shows response took too long, generally refresh page gets it done. Speed has still been great. ... View more

@GabeU sorry I missed your reply back in early Feb, hope your speeds are still doing better. Mine have stayed consistantly good, and I am still checking speeds often enough to believe the problems I had last fall/early winter are "fixed". Ping time is way slow, but seems to be the nature of the satellite system. Good luck. ... View more

@Liz, @happytexann, Liz, not sure if you have access to my speed tests or not (I assume you do) but just in case here are are a few of the latest: Sure appears to be getting better.  These are from Hughes site, and pretty well line up with testmy.net speeds (I only test download on the latter.)  Speed Test History ExportPrint Please allow up to 5 minutes to see your latest test results. Show: 102550100150200 at a time. (Total: 76) Page 1 of 4Next >>> Date Recorded Download Result(KBPS) Upload Result(KBPS) Hughes Modem 01/26/2018 07:29 AM   34241   3474   Yes   01/25/2018 06:16 AM 40008 3427 Yes 01/25/2018 05:39 AM 27852 3513 Yes 01/24/2018 09:07 PM 11571 3113 Yes 01/24/2018 09:05 PM 1837 3021 Yes 01/23/2018 09:07 PM 2399 3303 Yes 01/23/2018 09:05 PM 1984 3199 Yes 01/23/2018 09:04 PM 3576 3475 Yes 01/23/2018 08:13 AM 40838 2899 Yes 01/22/2018 07:19 PM 366 1820 Yes 01/22/2018 03:48 PM 1506 3043 Yes 01/22/2018 03:44 PM 1103 3038 Yes 01/22/2018 03:43 PM 2365 3361 Yes 01/22/2018 06:28 AM 37853 3164 Yes 01/22/2018 06:26 AM 40557 1574 Yes 01/18/2018 09:09 AM 1386 3223 Yes 01/16/2018 10:01 PM 1398 3407 Yes 01/16/2018 09:04 AM 1385 3004 Yes 01/16/2018 05:03 AM 41146 2705 Yes 01/15/2018 09:03 AM 1388 2843 Yes 01/15/2018 08:37 AM 1347 2959 Yes 01/15/2018 08:36 AM 1014 2908 Yes 01/08/2018 12:03 PM 39229 3610 Yes 01/08/2018 06:32 AM 47645 3680 Yes 01/08/2018 06:17 AM 43304 3643 Yes     ... View more

Yes computer is hardwired to the HT2000W. No wireless devices on at the times of testing. I ran 2 tests on your site tonite, a few minutes ago and the first was 1.79 Mbps down, the second test 11.03 Mbps. Upload speeds have not been a problem, in the 2.5-3.50 Mbps. Thanks for responding. I do still have a case ID #108423070 from 12-27-2017.  you might want to share with the engineers. ... View more

Sure seems like it's a matter of too many users for the data available. My tests tonight showed 2 to 3.5 Mbps down, and still upload speed about the same. I've never had upload speed as good or even better than the download speed with any other ISP.  ... View more

Speed is back to better than advertised this morning at 10 central time. 39 Mbps down. Some of yesterdays fault was mine for not recognizing the huge (probably in excess of 4 GB) being downloaded for Windows 10 Fall Creators vers 1709. Wish Microsoft had a way of letting us know when they were doing such a huge download, and it could be scheduled during the bonus hours. That being said I still think I'm having a slow down during evening hours due to traffic demands. If I was getting even half of advertised I think I could probably stream a basketball game without buffering. I still think Hughes could be more upfront and timely when they have so many common issues. ... View more

Beam 62, gateway 13 , just tested on hughesnet speed test 40Mbs down . I am still throttled due to usage so evening tests are still 1-1.5 and thats ok. I understand that. Thanks ... View more

Speed tests show a lot of variation. My results are/have been all over the place. During bonus hours speed is generally well over advertised of 25Mbs down, but falls off after 8AM usually in the 5-12Mbs, the big problem is evening speeds which I believe to be network overload. I don't try to stream movies, but do watch some music vids and on occasion have tried to watch live sports events, with no success. Service is mostly satisfactory, just not what I am paying for. If I were expecting to use it for full time streaming, it would really be upsetting. I have Directv for sports and televison in general (and have had since mid 90's) so am aware of weather outages, so know what to expect there. We all expect to get what we pay for, and a lot of us are not getting it. My service is in downgraded condition now for exceeding my limit, but for what I do computer wise it is still usable at 1-1.5 Mbs down. upload is still better at2-2.5 Mbs. Thanks for listening. ... View more

I truly hope that's the case, but will keep an eye on things and still test fairly often as I still have a case ID pending. So far so good, but still had a test at  5 Mbps down. but the next was 40+Mbps down.  Thanks for your info. ... View more