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You've made a new long thread that is an extension of another long thread. When the tree grows and your system stops working then cut the tree down. ... View more

FWIW when I saw this thread I looked at my SS for the first time in many months (it's 120 btw). Since getting Gen4 it just works all the time, except in (now) only rare instances of heavy thunderstorms. Anyway with "low 20s and no packet loss" I'm not sure why you are obsessing over this. Leave the trees alone until you're certain they're causing you a problem. I'm sure you know too that the satellite is actually higher in the sky than where the dish appears to be pointing... ... View more

It has been my belief that of the unhappy users there are the Clueless who don't understand or don't care about the limitations of satellite, and there are the Unfortunate who have installation problems (mis-pointing, unsecure mounts, bad cabling, electrical interference, defective modems, tree or building interference, etc). I suppose too that among the Clueless are so very many people who don't realized they have not only PCs but also smartphones and tablets and game consoles and DVRs and SmartTVs and... ad nauseum that are relentless in their designs to access the 'net silently inthebackground 24/7. I have only had two installations, the original Direcway dish and then more recently the Gen4 upgrade dish, and both have been (apparently) properly done. And since I am not among the Clueless I've learned to live with (and manage my devices) within the limits of Satellite transmission. ... View more

Same here. I dunno how we ever managed to get-along with just 200MB a day as with the older Gen. Don't tell anybody, but my DL speeds are consistently 2x as advertised--always around 20Mbps. I only come-around here to help-out occasionally, and to research for my new book "How NOT To Complain!". 😉 ... View more

Wow it's a Gbe port. I've had this thing for 18mos and didn't know that! 😮 Of course, my router's 100Mbps anyway... ... View more

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... ... View more

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? ... View more

>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. ... View more

"Smart" devices using bandwidth. Hopefully HN engineers are smart enough to figure-out how to build an identification mechanism (if only what LAN IP was responsible-for-which Downloads) into their modems, or Hughes will have to hire boatloads of CS and Account Services reps to handle all the customer complaints about "where did my bandwidth go?" Recently I have been using the Internet to go house-hunting, and have been amazed at all the bandwidth this has used what with Google-Earth (including Streetview) and Virtual Tours. But the real problem for Hughes is our iPhones and our SmartTVs and media players, not computers... ... View more