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Re: The Main Router Discussion Topic
Java it is--just checked it on a different PC. I have the Java 8 plugin in Firefox, but it's not normally active and requires that you click an Activate button. So I selected the test, which immediately ran it and gave me a good result, and then I clicked on the Java Activate button and subsequent attempts fail. With IE11 Java was already active so IE11 didn't work at all. Given the test worked w/o Java active I dunno what that thing might actually do as clearly it's not needed for the test. Mystery solved. Thanks fellas. p.s. Charles I wonder about your 119.8, that it doesn't state Mbps. Further, isn't the LAN side of the HT1100 100Mbps max? That's not a Gbe port is it? Guess I should look...7.7KViews1like0CommentsRe: The Main Router Discussion Topic
Having done a speed test today (19446 down, 674 up) and not having visited here for a while, in looking at this thread was surprised to learn of the HT1100's built-in "LAN Speed Test" which I'd never noticed before. OK so I run it for grins and it says 56Mbps which sounds right, but then I click on it again and it comes-up as 0.0 Mbps. Hmmm so I switch off'n Firefox and try IE11 and it too now says 0.0 Mbps, as though I broke something in the HT1100. Clearly everything is still working, I can surf OK. So how'd I break the LAN Speed Test? What does the (apparently) 5-step LAN Speed Test actually do? Usually speed tests require another bit of software on the other end of the cable to work properly. Any ideas?10KViews2likes0CommentsRe: Curse my smart TV !!!!!!
>Yea, not really a Hughes problem, just venting at my own stupidity for letting it happen. You're being too hard on yourself sgoshe--I don't know how you might have seen that coming, unless as you said up front the TV has a way to turn-off automatic updates. My many iGizmos download updates in the background and I can't find any way to stop this! I wonder what earlier-Gen HN customers are suffering these days--any of these updates would have been impossible to get with the older system (200MB/day for mine). If HN engineers aren't working feverishly to add some kind of download-tracking mechanism to their modems' firmware, this board is going to choke to death on complaints from customers about bandwidth.6.8KViews0likes0Comments