  N4ST Jim Premium join:2005-11-25 Jersey, VA
·WildBlue
| Current Status: Saturday April 26, 2008
Pro Pak ~ Beam 37 ~ Anik F2 ~ Proxy Off
:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1647 Kbps about 1.6 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB) Download Speed is:: 201 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 5:26am Bottom Line:: 29X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.09 sec Tested from a 3072 kB file and took 15.281 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 64.86 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net) D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-8VUXF1ECB User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 [!]
:::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 244 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 30 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 5:29am Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 34.13 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 100.359 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 47.88 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net) U-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-N3YTJ5KWF User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 [!] -- Anik F2 | WildBlue Pro Pak | Beam 37 | Laredo NOC | Since Nov 2005 |
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 Spice300 Premium join:2006-01-10
| Download speed is still slow and jerky when using the proxy at my gateway. After 4 months, WB still has not fixed the problem Upload speed is slow.
Weather: clear, breeze, 70 F, humidity: 24% Weather at Riverside gateway: Doppler radar shows clear.
Using Cheyenne proxy for Anik-F2:
:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 612 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 1024 kB) Download Speed is:: 75 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 5:14pm MST Bottom Line:: 11X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 13.65 sec Tested from a 1024 kB file and took 13.71 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 71.75 % of your hosts average (230.38) D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-F31KWTIOD
:::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 74 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 9 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 5:16pm MST Bottom Line:: 1X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 113.78 sec Tested from a 579 kB file and took 64.473 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 48.37 % of your hosts average (230.38) U-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-2QG0FRZCS
ping -n 20 -w 8000 12.213.224.60 Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 780ms, Maximum = 3089ms, Average = 1453ms
Time to load cnn.com: 40.5 s (790.6 kB down, 149.8 kB up) Time for page to appear: 26 s 8 out of 136 page elements blocked.
Using Riverside proxy for Anik-F2:
:::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 344 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 1024 kB) Download Speed is:: 42 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 5:24pm MST Bottom Line:: 6X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 24.38 sec Tested from a 1024 kB file and took 24.395 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 46.24 % of your hosts average (224.56) D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-1MVEBHWQZ -- Value Pack, beam 31, Riverside gateway |
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  Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
·WildBlue
·TDS
2 edits | :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1713 Kbps about 1.7 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB) Download Speed is:: 209 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 6:36pm Bottom Line:: 30X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.9 sec Tested from a 3072 kB file and took 14.69 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 71.47 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net) D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-PW462C1RS User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 [!]
:::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 235 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Upload Speed is:: 29 kB/s Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2008/04/26 - 6:39pm Bottom Line:: 4X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 35.31 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 104.088 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 42.42 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net) U-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-3MVXFO80U User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 [!]
Upload is a tiny bit slow, but download is actually faster than advertised here. (pro package, beam 17) -- Very happy TDS DSL user | Wildblue in Lake Michigan |
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  Qoiz
join:2005-06-26 | reply to N4ST Hey Jeff how come you still have WB if you got the awesome TDS service now? |
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  Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
·WildBlue
·TDS
3 edits | Backup, just in case.
I overlapped my starband system for a while when I first got wildblue in 2005 too, just in case anything went wrong.
So far I haven't had to use wildblue as backup as I haven't had a minute of downtime on the TDS DSL since I got it, though I've downloaded a couple of GB on the wildblue (the DSL is 3 MB so with it and wildblue I now have 4.5 Mbps; on the upload side my TDS DSL is 512 kbps, real world around 400 kbps and my wildblue is 256 kbps real world around 230 kbps, so I can also use both to upload if I have multiple large things to go up; and I can either use the firefox quick proxy switch to do a test on one or the other or I can open IE set to proxy to the squid box connected to the wildblue modem if I want to download something at 1500 kbps while I also download at 3000 kbps over the dsl )
I guess there's also a touch of nostalgia mixed in because I relied on satellite for so many years since 2001 (and looking at the wildblue dish in the yard out my window always thought the idea of sending a signal to the satellite 22,000 miles in orbit and back to canada and back was very cool) so I'm not in a real hurry to pull the plug on it.
I figure I make half my income online so having a backup Internet connection makes sense. -- Very happy TDS DSL user | Wildblue in Lake Michigan |
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