Spice300
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join:2006-01-10
1 edit | reply to cubcadet
Re: Just had Wildblue installed
Assuming you are using the satellite WB-1, Dwight, IL is covered by spot beam 114 and uses the Laredo Gateway in Laredo TX. The other less likely possibility is spot beam 27 of the satellite Anik-F2 which uses the Winnipeg Gateway. You can find links to radar maps of the gateways in the sticky thread, Weather at Wildblue NOC's, located on BBR's Wildblue forum page.
Beam 114 is popular and probably suffers from prime time slowdown, that is, slow upload and download speeds from about 5 pm to 11 pm on weekdays.
A good site to run speed tests on Wildblue Internet is Test My Network. If you have the Value Pack (Dish Network calls it the Bronze package), I suggest using the 1024 kB file size for download and the 579 kB file for upload. If the testing file size is too small, the result will be inaccurate. Here are my results while using the Cheyenne proxy for Anik-F2:
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 674 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 82 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/04/12 - 10:26pm MDT
Bottom Line:: 12X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 12.49 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 12.307 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 84.04 % of your hosts average (230.36)
D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-NOWKH04BM
:::.. Upload Stats ..:::
Upload Connection is:: 127 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 579 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 16 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/04/12 - 10:29pm MDT
Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 64 sec
Tested from a 579 kB file and took 37.313 seconds to complete
Upload Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 9.48 % faster than the average for host (230.36)
U-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-0HJPIM1QY
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Value Pack, beam 31, Riverside gateway |
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cubcadet
join:2009-04-12
Dwight, IL
| I just have the basic package dishnetwork calls it the silver package.$49.95 if I jump to the next middle pack it would jump to $69.95 I hope to just stay where I am but if I would gain a lot I would upgrade?Would there be a big differance in speed for what they claim?If I read it right it should be about twice as fast? |
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cubcadet
join:2009-04-12
Dwight, IL
| :::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 752 Kbps about 0.8 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Download Speed is:: 92 kB/s
Tested From:: »testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2009/04/14 - 10:17am
Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 11.13 sec
Tested from a 1013 kB file and took 11.032 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 85.07 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: »testmy.net/stats/id-N3WCU6Q4F
User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; GTB5; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1) [!] |
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William
Premium
join:2007-09-22
Washougal, WA
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said by cubcadet  :Would there be a big difference in speed for what they claim?If I read it right it should be about twice as fast? Not twice a fast. I have the select pak (next one up) and usually see up to 1000K down, up to 200K up, pretty much as advertised. |
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cubcadet
join:2009-04-12
Dwight, IL | How about when things are slower?Example if I only get 300 rather then 700 at times.If I upgraded would that mean my slow times would increase?Or is it when weather or heavy traffic what ever causes it to slow it would just be the same way Slow! |
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William
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join:2007-09-22
Washougal, WA
4 edits | Slowness from weather/traffic/beam you are on, I really don't know.
Today here for example we are getting snow, wet snow at that, and if there is enough on the dish that will interfere for some sluggish browsing, snow on a little white peice (see arrow on attached photo). |
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Spice300
Premium
join:2006-01-10
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If your beam has prime time slowdown, according to reports the middle and top package are especially slow during such times. The bottom package does not slow down as much. Since the latency is the same with all packages, browsing does not improve much with the higher speed packages, but downloading and uploading files improves.
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Value Pack, beam 31, Riverside gateway |
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cubcadet
join:2009-04-12
Dwight, IL | Sounds like I might as well stick with the basic package.Thats OK for me and is what I had with Hughesnet.So I can use the lower monthly price to my advantage |
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cubcadet
join:2009-04-12
Dwight, IL
| After 6 full days with Wildblue.So far not to bad I have used it a lot during the 6 days.Speed has been very good so far with only 2 slow times.I did have my first outage tonight Friday at around 11pm CDT and Texas was getting a storm according to the Weather channel.So I must get my service from Larado Texas?Came right back as fast as it left.But it storms a lot in Texas in the summer!Overall so far so good. |
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Spice300
Premium
join:2006-01-10
| said by cubcadet :I have used it a lot during the 6 days. Be careful not to overdo it with your new toy. Watch your usage meter and remember that no usage will subtract off your meter for the first 30 days. |
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