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Just an FYI about where the latencies occur with geostat sattelites... http://www.satsig.net/latency.htm   ... View more

Don't think legal action would be easy / help, but I agree with the complaint. I understand the 600 - 700 ms latency involving a geostat satellite.   I would need to use a stopwatch to add all of the "back & forth" data exchanges (~280ms latency, due to round trip to satellite - rest is Hnet) to load a typical web page to quantify properly.   OTOH, just observing the data activity and measuring the overall time to complete a page load seems to take much longer than just the satellite distance / latency time. I have had many pages take in excess of 45 to 90 seconds to finish loading. I also realize there is going to be some latency at the earth gateway.  But, I would not expect so much.   Pages are a little slower to load while I am (now out of data) throttled - back, but not by much.  Sad to say in many cases that 1Mbps will load a page as fast as 30Mbp due to delays at Hnet.   Admittedly, I can tell that when throttled-back, zooming-in with google/maps is just a little slower.  BTW, don't stream video much at all, so no opinion on that. Woody ... View more

It has been a while... Glasswire was interesting.  It reported more background data than I would have expected.  Have (yet) compared reported usage with that recorded by HN.   Still have slow connections to web sites.  Yesterday my 10GB was used-up and was throttled back from >25 Mbps to about 1 Mbps.   Don't do much video, where the result of slower speed may be more apparemt.   The interesting thing is that, for most sites I access, there is VERY little difference in web page load times.   The vast majority of delay is in the initial connection to the sites (TLS handshake, etc.).   Still sounds like a HN earth gateway bottleneck (?).  Considering going to the 20GB plan but wonder if it is worth it considering this issue. Woody ... View more

THANKS ! _W_ ... View more

Re: My post above... Just ran some more web page load time experiments.   At least in the wee hours of the morning, I will say there actually is some improvement.  With all the changes, the load times are at faster.  About 60% of the times I have previously experienced.  Not too bad.... To be certain, need to run more tests later to smooth the data. ... View more

Changing from AVG to Bitdefender rectified the Facebook logon issue.  Best I can tell, that and installing uBlock Origin, had little effect on web page load times.  Not enough difference, considering other variables, to say for sure... Data consumption is still higher than I would expect considering the type of usage.   However a system sharing session with support may have contributed.  Still evaluating... Can anyone suggest a data usage monitor for Win7 that not only records overall usage, but specifically what program, service, web page, etc. is using the data? Woody   ... View more

Thanks, but it is a constant.  When clear here - and doubt it is always stormy at the HN earth station...   ... View more

Speed has been restored (new billing period) and uBlock Origin installed.  Web page loads may be slightly faster, but for typical low graphics page, still slower than than my former 3G (1.5Mbps) isp.   Also FaceBook still fails to load (SSL error - too long, or time outs) anout 7 out of 10 attempts.  I guess it is, as they say, it is what it is.... Woody - KZ4AK ... View more

Yep!  you are correct.  When I was having trouble with my Verizon 3G ISP, called them. I had a 13 element beam at 50 feet pointed to their tower (Cradlepoint router and PC770 express card).  The measured EVDO signal strength was at -65dbm a lot of the time but would also drop to less than -125 dbm.  No fade, just died. - Then back up after an hour or two.  The person at support totally ignored the -65 dbm report and just kept repeating the mantra that I was in a fringe reception area - and their towers never had any problems.  How frustrating...  Here comes HN! ... View more

Hope you get the antenna work done OK.   I am using  3 wire ants.  2 @ 68', 1 @ 110' -- Tower to 80' oak trees.  More details at albe24.com. Woody - KZ4AK ... View more

I certainly agree that too many sites cram way too much graphic content in their opening / index page.  Not much we can do about that.   Sometimes I long for the times when I was accessing a local RBBS with my dialup CP/M (pre DOS) computer!  OTOH, no worldwide access without expensive long distance charges...  Guess I am showing my age.   The Fbook errors still happen from time to time.  Either timeouts or the ssl_error_too_long....   OTOH, if one is persistent it will eventually load.  Changing the DNS didn't fix those  ...But multiple reloads will.   Since page loads were so slow before I was throttled back, I get the impression the problem I have is with the HN earth gateway.  My page (albe24.com) with no load calls from elsewhere, loads pretty quickly.  When I guestioned this with phone support, they sort of ignored me and kept repeating my download speeds were fine.  Most page loads do not take significalnty longer (for lower graphic content pages)  at 0.85Mbps than they did at 30Mbps.   To look at the bright side, lower download speeds hardly impact my usage. ;)     Not using an adblocker but going to look into doing so to see if that helps.  Will report back in about 3 days when my "normal" speed returns.   Woody ... View more

Hello all... No DirecTV connection and FB autoplay has been off for a long time.   Will have to wait a few days until the next usage period (fast speed) is restored to fully evaluate data usage rates and web page load times.  The DNS change may or may not have affected page load times.  ...Not a big enough change to notice right now.  Will see what the perfomance is like when speed is back up.  S ince the DNS change, have not received the error " ssl_error_rx_record_too_long" (or something close to that) when logging on to Fbook - so far, at least .  That was the only site that presented the error.   More usage needed to evaluate that glitch.     With the slow speed, it took 75 seconds to fully load cnn.com, 90 seconds for cnet.com, 40 seconds for qrz.com, 25 for arrl.org, 50 for wunderground.com, and 15 seconds for my web site, albe24.com.   Will be interesting to see what it is like when speed returns.  The graphics don't change much for arrl.org and not at all for albe24.com so they might be best for comparison. Thanks again, Woody ... View more

Oh, FWIW - I am connected to the router via Ethernet. ... View more

Thanks for the tips.  Have changed the HT2000W DNS setting to Cloudflare.  Will see how that does.   Interesting tidbit...    I thought that my 10GB plan would be fine since I don't stream video, except for an occasional Facebook or Youtube video.   At first that was true and my projection was that I should have data remaining at the end of my period.   Then, a few days ago (apparently for no reason I can discover) my data began to drain at an alarming rate.  For a few days, it das disappearing at a rate of >2GB/day.   A few days before the new period, I was throttled back (from 25 - 40 Gbps to  ~ 0.8 Gbps).   The "interesting" thing is that there is almost no difference in the load times for the web sites I usually visit.  Apparently there is a bottleneck, not with streaming downloads, but with HN getting the data to send to me.  Hope the new DNS helps. Thanks all, Woody - KZ4AK ... View more

Just performed several HN speed tests.  At the moment the average is 1.9 down and 1 up.  That sucks, but the slow web page loads have historically occurred with the higher values.  ...Woody ... View more