About Danny89

There are several sites that are routinely slow due to bad routes from HughesNet's provider (as shown through traceroutes). Steam is one of them, along with anything related to Microsoft, especially github. It's been really bad the past month or so. ... View more

Back to full data and its running properly! Since it started picking up during the throttle I'll assume that whatever needed to be done behind the scenes was done 😛 ... View more

I am having this problem too. I already made a post about this though. My beam ID is 64. last month downloading games on STEAM while in FAP was between 200-400 kilobytes per second, which is pretty good and has been the normal for years. the last few days in FAP was between 1-100 kilobytes, bouncing back and fourth pretty badly. when I have token data the speed appears to be in good shape, only FAP is slower than normal. ... View more

@Kh5thgait    It's just an idea, and really only a possible solution for the time being, but check if your cell phone has the ability to 'tether'.  If it does, you should be able to connect your computer to your cell phone via USB cable and then use your cell phone as your internet source.  It might cost an arm and a leg for the data, but at least you'd be able to get done what you need to with your computer being connected to the net.     Again, it's just an idea.  I had to do this with my Tracfone cell phone a couple of times when there was bad weather and I couldn't connect via HughesNet because of it. ... View more

@schalid wrote: yes i posted that above. I missed that.     At least you know in general where it's going, but without a program to monitor its specifics it'll be a guessing game as to what site or sites are particularly high data users.     Just in case, you may also want to check if syncing is turned on in Edge.  Syncing, in and of itself, can use a lot of data. ... View more

The bonus zone is always 2 am to 8 am local time.  Maybe what you saw was a bit delayed in updating, but the bonus zone times have not changed. ... View more

I was thinking at some point of coming up with every vulnerability probe I see and try to classify what they're trying to do, including those that don't even have a protocol associated with them and just throw control characters at the web server. It'd be a lot of work though.   Edit: Before I start getting someone with smart comments, yes, I know that the control characters thing is a form of SQL Injection... ... View more

@Danny89 , your suggestion would definitely be worth a try.  ... View more

Late to this party, but my modem is on all the time unless there's a power outage. 🙂   @GabeU wrote: I've done the same since the day I got HughesNet in Dec 2004.  When my desktop computer gets turned off, the modem gets unplugged.  I don't do it for data reasons, though, but only because I don't want it on when I'm not using it.   ... View more

Just throwing this out there:   Not gonna lie, I do some pretty draconian user-agent and IP blocking on the sites I administer... including the use of proxy use: China uses a network of proxies to hide behind to probe for site vulnerabilities, then uses the proxies to probe for even more proxies. And a good lot of them hide behind Amazon, Google, GoDaddy, OVH, Proxad and other cloud services.   The possibility also exists that any site could possibly misconstrue a person attempting to use their site that has malware as a threat. They can easily block the IP, an entire block of IPs (CIDR), or even the network (ASN) it blongs to from accessing it ever again. Some even subscribe to services that check the malcious history of an IP first before blocking.   There's also 'invisible' reCaptcha checking by Google that sometimes cause people to get blocked. I use that as well, and sometimes get trapped by it when on HN. Not often enough for it to be much of a problem though.   Bottom line: There are lots of reasons why connections to sites are disrupted than just a corrupted DNS entry. My DNS process just attempts to eliminate that as one possibility, and it's something any user can do. ... View more

Hello @slym   We are sorry to hear that you were affected by this. I'm glad to hear our representatives were able to help you out with this issue. If you need any further assistance with this process or have any questions, please reach out again.   -Damian   ... View more

@Danny89    To answer your question about the beams, there are many other customers on your beam, though the actual number only HughesNet would know, and it's doubtful they would say.  The footprint for each beam varies.  For the Echostar 19 satellite, which is the satellite most Gen5 customers utilize, there is no present map to show where the beams are, but you can see the beams for the Echostar 17 satellite, which is what many Gen4 users utilize, here.  You can see each beam's location in the image on the lower half of the page.  It's an automatic slide show type, which you can control below the picture, and you can click on the link (above the picture) for a specific beam and have it open the map for that beam, which you can then zoom in on.  There is beam information for the ES19 satellite on that site, but it's a duplicate of the ES17, which means it's incorrect.     As an example, this is my old Gen4 beam footprint on the ES17 satellite.  It's beam 24.     As for your question about data on your network, there is Glasswire, which monitors all data that your Windows PC uses, but only for the PC it's installed on.  It will tell you not only how much data is being used, but also what is using it, as in programs, apps and system processes, and how much each of those things is using.  It's a VERY handy tool which many of us HughesNet customers use.  It's free.  There is a paid version which will monitor items on your network, but I don't know if it monitors anything more than Windows PCs, and I don't know what it shows for the other PCs on the network.  But, for PCs, you can still just install the free version on each.  There is also a version for Android based smart phones, though I haven't tried it.     The best option you have for monitoring all of the items on your network and being able to see how much data each one is using is a good 3rd party router with 3rd party firmware.  You can use 3rd party routers with the HughesNet HT2000W modem.  Asus routers with Merlin firmware are popular, but for the options your looking for they aren't cheap.  Maybe $150 and above.  There is also DD-WRT firmware, which works on many brands and models of routers, but, like with the ASUS routers and Merlin firmware, what options are available to view will depend on the model of router.  Usually, the more expensive the router, the better the capabilities with that 3rd party firmware.  To study this option, your best bet would be to go the Merlin and DD-WRT websites and utilize their forums.  You can explain what you're looking for and people can most likely recommend some routers for that purpose.  The forum/community for the Merlin firmware is under the Contact header on the Merlin site.  For the DD-WRT, you'll see the link on the main page.   Hope this helps.  🙂 ... View more

Never got mine working through my HN9000 even for activating single player I had to use a wireless hot spot. No idea how to fix it but you aren't alone. ... View more