All of these issues with beams / satellites / up and down speeds / and all the other situations that arise with this type of service is much more complicated than my experience with broadband. Sure I had the dish changed from beam 55 to 19, and speed tests show better speeds like this morning 1/13/18- did 4 tests: Down: 4.88, 4.89, 4.88, 4.89 - and Up: 1.15, 0.78, 1.90, 2.19. However something has me confused by these speeds and latency. Last evening I was able to reliable sign on and play my WOW game and it was very slow. I looked at the in-game speeds and saw a latency of over 4000! Never had that before! Usually it was in the 400 to 600 range. Of course in these games, latency can kill the action. At one time during the very bad slowdown of Hughes on 55, I tested the hops to someplace, don't recall - think it was a WOW related address. It was maybe 30 hops and with HN being so slow the test timed out. So maybe some slowness issues are also caused by the on-land network and not HN, although of course the culprit starts with HN. And the responses today with my email client are also slow. Seems I also have other issues to figure out. A lot of this stuff is beyond the normal user and I feel sad about their situation.
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