Skyway 's New Satellite in Other Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20957344 en Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:47:42 EDT Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:47:42 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21167889 anon : »forum1.aimoo.com/billbob here is another place to go and start posting on skyway ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21167889 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:19:48 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21113741 firefly : re: Island Jeff

If you go over 5GB during your month, then Verizon starts charging you .25 cents per megabyte. You can easily keep track of your usage by logging into your Verizon account online and checking your usage or if your router keeps logs you can check it there. 5GB might not seem like alot but it is plenty for most people. Just don't go wild and download movies and other stuff off of p2p and you should be fine. In my area it's either EVDO or dial-up and I'm not going back to dial-up. Here is a link to give you an idea of just what you can do with a 5GB cap.

»www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/846/63/
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Phear the Penguin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21113741 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:52:45 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21112896 Island Jeff : What happens if you do go over?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21112896 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:34:09 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21097447 firefly : re: bamaboy70,

Good to hear. I've had EVDO for about 2 weeks now and I surf the web for several hours a day, and I'm still under 1GB usage. I even watched a few youtube videos and downloaded some mp3's too. I was surprised I didn't use more than that. I'll still keep track of my usage just to make sure not to go over. Congratulations on getting EVDO.
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Phear the Penguin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21097447 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:11:17 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21096511 bamaboy70 : My Verizon EVDO is up and running very, very good. Compared to what I had with Hugenet, and Skyway, this is near the speed of light :D I just ain't figured out yet how to post the link that shows the speeds, so I will just do it this way:

Download, 1226 kb/s
Upload, 426 kb/s
Ping 302 ms

The only downside I have is the 5gb. monthly limit. That may come back and bite me in the a$$ later on. But for the moment, I'm happier than a dead pig(with lipstick) in sunshine ;)

I still have a month and a half on my contract with Skyway, and if they will not let me out early, I'm gonna ride that hoss till she drops :p]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21096511 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:26:15 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21091467 revrus : We are in the testing stages for EVDO. I wanted to get a router and amplifier system before I got Skyway. But the wife liked the ideal of satellite fast now better.

Of course after I ordered it it was 2 1/2 months before the system even came in. I was going to go Platinum with Skyway if I could ever catch them selling it.

The way things are looking I'll probably be going EVDO as well.
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Sounds like Skyway is doing what it did around 2 years ago. Losing their satellite uplink (due to nonpayment) and then leaving their customers stuck on dial-up only for months while still charging them full price.

I think you'll really like EVDO. I get the Rev. A version in my area and it blows Skyway out of the water. No dish to install, aways on connection, basically like a wireless dsl connection. I got the Cradlepoint MBR1000 router with mine so I could network all of my stuff. I use Linux and it works great with this router and USB 727 EVDO modem. Let us know how it goes.
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Phear the Penguin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21088671 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:00:19 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21084160 bamaboy70 : I have some good news and bad news. First the bad. For two straight days, after losing signal during a heavy rain, even hours after direct tv comes back on, I still have no signal strength. No heavy wind, too move the dish, and using the skybeeper, I have a strong tone coming out of the LNB.As I stated before I am on Amc15. I have booted the modem multiple times, and still in the red.

Now for the good news. I now have EVDO available in my area, and will have my usb modem tomorrow. I still have one month left on my contract, and will not cancel till I am sure that Verizon can come through. I'll let you know tomorrow how it turns out ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21084160 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:48:28 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21083507 firefly : re: revrus

Sounds like they are screwing you too. Maybe they're throttling you like they did me. I paid for the Gold plan but in August my speeds tanked. It's still my opinion that Skyway is having a major bandwidth problem, and server problem. I noticed a steady increase in DNS server errors, gateway errors, remote server errors, etc. during August when I would be just browsing the web. I also noticed SSL connections started to take forever to load up. They cut my speed in half, blamed me for using too much (which never happened the previous 11 months), and then informed me about no more Midnight Madness without notifying me in advance and offered no recourse for being a good customer. I kicked them to the curb, and now I have Verizon EVDO. Let us know if Skyway ever returns your speeds back to normal.
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It's the 9th at 0007 and the speed after complete reset is:



Both of the graphic speeds were 3 meg tests. And I'm supposed to get 762 kbps?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21076939 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:16:16 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21076847 revrus : Actually I was running the smart test.

If I try the larger files I get either proxy errors or bad gateways.

It seems like every third or fourth page I try one of the two above errors are coming up.

When I was talking to customer service the other day, they said it did not matter which satellite I used.

I used to get excellent speeds. Since around the beginning of August service has dropped through the bottom. This is with my lowest recived signal being 7.9 I almost never drop below a perfect signal.
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I have the Gold plan and tonight is a fast night.

Your connection is: 89 Kbps or 0.1 Mbps
You downloaded at: 11 kB/s
You are running: 2 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 93.09 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:1982887322200
Test Time:: 2008/09/07 - 7:41pm
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080710 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Test ID: KCWV4UJ2E (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 8.51 % of your hosts average (ses-americom.net)
This was tested from a 97 kB file and took 8.969 seconds to complete
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DOS: n., A small annoying boot virus that causes random spontaneous system crashes, usually just before saving a massive project. Easily cured by UNIX. See also MS-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS. (from David Vicker's .plan) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21073533 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:54:58 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21052096 anon : yes i was down for the 32 hours. they told my son it was because of power outage due to sprinkler system. yes i have the platium package, at first i was unhappy with the unit. i was going to become a dealer but that dish and lnbf was useless up here in mich. so i did a couple of tweaks to it now i can peg the the signal meter out instead of seeing a red meter and it saying bad on the sw20 login page. i cant sell it that way and they dont want to fix so there lose only been in the bizz for 30+ years,so if they keep going like they are we will loose our systems due to no fault of ours :uhh: :uhh: :uhh: dam shame .........billybob :} ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21052096 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:41:57 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21051953 firefly : re: bamaboy70

Your connection looks like what mine used to be with Skyway up until August 15. Then overnight my connection was cut in half and remained there. Over the course of the past year, my connection was never throttled. I was very careful to download during Midnight Madness. Then after August 15 when I called to complain that something was wrong, that's when they informed me about no more Midnight Madness and stated that I had downloaded over 3.5GB! and was being throttled. I did not download 3.5GB and why after their network went down did my connection all of a sudden get slashed in half for the first time in a year? They didn't even suggest resetting my account or anything. So given how they had quietly done away with Midnight Madness without notification and then throttled my connection alot I decided to get a new ISP. Have they offered any explaination as to why your connection was down for 32 hours?

re: nowhatimsaying

That sentence looks good! LOL! :)

Are you on the Platinum account? 1.7Mbps looks pretty good. Did your connection go down for 32 hours as well?

I now have Verizon's EVDO service. It rocks!

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 2420 Kbps about 2.4 Mbps (tested with 3072 kB)
Download Speed is:: 295 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/09/03 - 1:50pm
Bottom Line:: 42X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.47 sec
Tested from a 3072 kB file and took 10.401 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 187.75 % faster than the average for host (myvzw.com)

I've seen it reach 2.6Mbps with a transfer rate of 314kB/s before too on a previous test a few days ago.

I'm still skeptical about Skyway and what they're doing to their network. Taking away Midnight Madness without notification and then throttling me was a crappy thing to do. I guess time will tell. I'm very happy with Verizon now and wish I had this before messing with Skyway. Good luck with Skyway.
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You downloaded at: 214 kB/s
You are running: 30 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 4.79 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:35756798874
Test Time:: 2008/09/02 - 4:42pm
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; PeoplePal 3.0)
Test ID: EU18YPTVJ (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: Awesome! 20% + : 26.92 % faster than the average for host (141.50)
This was tested from a 3072 kB file and took 14.391 seconds to complete
here is mine. :D so it can be good :}}]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21047118 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:56:12 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21047094 anon : see i do know how. that better ? :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21047094 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:53:27 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046758 bamaboy70 : Your connection is: 836 Kbps or 0.8 Mbps
You downloaded at: 102 kB/s
You are running: 15 times faster than 56K and can download 1 megabyte in 10.04 second(s)
Member Ident: CompID:35756798874
Test Time:: 2008/09/02 - 3:36pm
Test Browser and OS info: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Test ID: 4O7JKTVCY (if this is a screenshot go to testmy.net to see if this is fake)
Diagnosis ^info^: May need help : running at only 60.8 % of your hosts average (141.50)
This was tested from a 1536 kB file and took 15.047 seconds to complete

After being down for about over 32 hours, finally have a signal this evening At least the download is good at the moment. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046758 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:44:32 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046230 firefly : re: bamaboy70

I've found the test at Toast.net to be very unreliable. It's given me bogus speed results that were not even close to being accurate. Maybe this is why Skyway uses it. I've found Testmy.net site to give accurate results and mirrored what I was witnessing when my Skyway connection went into the toilet. Use the download test at Testmy.net and post what the results are. I usually did 3 tests in a row just to get an average for Skyway.
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Phear the Penguin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046230 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:07:57 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046141 firefly : Even though I just canceled my Skyway account about a week ago, when I called about my service sucking, they never mentioned anything about a new satellite. I called several times, and no one mentioned this, just that they were working on their network and it would be fixed in a little bit (yeah, right!). Their network went into the toilet the weekend of August 15 and never came back out, at least when I used to have it. I doubt very much that Skyway will email customers about any new satellite since they killed Midnight Madness without emailing about that important service change.

I had Skyway for a year, worked great until the weekend of August 15. They've screwed up their network. Since they removed the Midnight Madness time zone, I believe Skyway is having a serious bandwidth issue. Around two years ago or so, Skyway got into trouble by not paying it's satellite uplink provider and left alot of users stuck on dial-up for months. I'm starting to think that they've F'ed Up again. I noticed SSL connections were taking a heck of alot longer than normal to connect as well. My guess is that they've oversold their bandwidth and now are having to scramble to find a way to support all of the additional users, such as canceling Midnight Madness, increasing using heavy traffic shaping, and numerous DNS and other server errors along with more downtime causing users to use the dial-up option more.

Seriously, if there was a new satellite being prepared and their network was going to go through a major change, why didn't Skyway email, call, or send a letter ahead of time to all of it's customers warning them of possible downtimes in the near future. Also, why don't they tell customers calling in that they're switching satellites over or doing major network upgrades? They didn't tell me anything. And I noticed that you used to be able to call Skyway and get through to someone very quickly, but now the phone is busy 90% of the time. People calling in complaining? Company going out of business?

IMHO Skyway is in major trouble. They are now going to heavily throttle users and took away the free download time.

re: nowhatimsaying....that has to be the longest run-on sentence I've ever seen. LOL!
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Phear the Penguin]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21046141 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:53:22 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21039431 anon : you guys skywayusa is great system for the purpose that is built on to provide fast downloads if you are in there strong footprint area. if you are outside there footprint as i am in the fringe area they the tech team can not get you locked on to amc15 I:E:the busy phone they cant get things that they have no experience on for this is that they have not been outside there local area they do not know very much about d/b gain antenna f/d ratio footprint strenght so on im not knocking there system but if it comes to the point that you need any tech support and your in there general area they can help you and do a good job on tech support if you are on there fringe of there signal forget there tech support and buy a book on the necessary info that it would take to calculate your settings location i have had experience in the field for a long time and have set up equipment all over the usa so i know the difference that it takes to do the necessary steps to get a good performance out of there system and it can be done very easy and you should once you have the right info be able to enjoy a good time with the system ........p.s that is if the can keep there feed from going down on amc15 right now im on dialup part of there system it went down last night at 11:00pm saturday night aug 31 08 and is still down as of this post sept 01,8:50 am good luck ! billybob]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21039431 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:06:27 EDT Re: Skyway 's New Satellite http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20981694 Island Jeff :
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Now I can connect and the fastest download in the last 2 days was 60K when I am paying 59.99 for the Gold plan with 768K speeds.
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Apparently Skyway has fell into the same groove as Hughes and Wildblue and completely oversold the available bandwith.

I'm not wild about wildblue's high latency, but in terms of overselling the available bandwidth, I've been a customer since 2005 and still get what I consider reasonable overall throughput.

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1556 Kbps about 1.6 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)
Download Speed is:: 190 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2008/08/20 - 5:57pm
Bottom Line:: 27X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 5.39 sec
Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 16.127 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 63.62 % faster than the average for host (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-V7K2LPUM1
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 [!]
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Support said everyone will receive a email noting the changeover, but would not give a specific date. So hang in there, better speeds may be coming soon!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20957344 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:26:42 EDT