| [general] Getting WildBlue this week Anything I should prepare for with WildBlue? Getting it installed this week. Had wireless but it has been very slow so satellite internet here I go! |
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| I would have waited until the new satellite launches personally. It is launching at the end of September. |
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| What will be the difference? |
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 ·WildBlue
| It supposedly has more capacity then all of the Ka-Band satellites combined.
»www.mybluedish.com/blog/wildblue···r/30904/
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 TonyKZ1
join:2010-04-08
Marble Hill, MO | reply to mkcruiser14
Congrats, keep us updated on how the installation goes and how well it works afterwards. What wireless did you have before?
Thanks, Tony |
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| I had CellCom out of northern, WI |
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·WildBlue
| Honestly though I think you are taking a step back. I would take slow wireless over satellite any day. The wireless would haft to be degraded pretty severe to be as bad as Wildblue is right now.
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 ·Millenicom
·HughesNet Satell..
| Should have stayed with the wireless. Now you are going to have latency that will make playing most games online impossible and caps that will make trying to watch youtube videos or movies infuriating. I have Hughesnet and have had Wildblue and I can tell you that slower download speeds are better than a good day with satellite, I Have speeds of 4Mb/s now on Hughesnet and would give them up in a minute for a 1Mb/s connection with low latency and I may very soon switch to Millenicom just for that. Don't get me wrong, I am gratefull every day for my satellite connection and even more so for the new speed increases but satellite is one step up from the bottom of the barrel with dial-up being the very bottom.
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HughesNet elite plan/.74 dish w/1watt trans. / 9000 modem / 3 computers on a linksy's wired network |
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| The reason I stwiched is because it takes about 20 minutes or more to watch a UTube video. At about 5:30 to 7:00 I could barely load my email! |
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·WildBlue
| said by mkcruiser14:The reason I stwiched is because it takes about 20 minutes or more to watch a UTube video. At about 5:30 to 7:00 I could barely load my email!
Satellite is going to be hell too. Crap service during the day followed by even crappier service at peak time.
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| said by Sircolby45:Satellite is going to be hell too. Crap service during the day followed by even crappier service at peak time.
Basic WB package
:::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 452 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1 MB)
Download Speed is:: 57 kB/s
Tested From:: »(Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: »testmy.net/db/SLkOohP
Test Time:: 2011-08-31 13:53:33 Local Time
1MB Download in 17.96 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~5 Hours - X faster than 56K
Tested from a 1 MB file and took 18.558 seconds to complete
Running at 22% of hosts average (unknown)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110803 Firefox |
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| It is 2:00 CST. That is not peak time. Also feel free to post a ping test. |
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| reply to DrStrangeLov
Todays test 09/02/2011 ::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 1761 Kbps about 1.8 Mbps (tested with 1.5 MB)
Download Speed is:: 220 kB/s
Tested From:: »(Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: »testmy.net/db/1OB4Cau
Test Time:: 2011-09-02 12:20:06 Local Time
1MB Download in 4.65 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Hours - X faster than 56K
Tested from a 1.5 MB file and took 7.147 seconds to complete
Running at 87% of hosts average (unknown)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0 [!]
Most days it's good. Other days I wish I still had dial up. Been using WB for about 8 years now. Bright side is that by the end of the year or early next year I will "finally" be on fiber optics. They are doing the area (rural) and things should look up. |
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| reply to mkcruiser14
Re: [general] Getting WildBlue this week :::.. Download Test Results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 512 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1 MB)
Download Speed is:: 64 kB/s
Tested From:: »(Dallas, TX USA)
Validation Link:: »testmy.net/db/6Yz08OU
Test Time:: 2011-09-02 18:34:26 Local Time
1MB Download in 16 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~5 Hours - X faster than 56K
Tested from a 1 MB file and took 16.37 seconds to complete
Running at 25% of hosts average (unknown)
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 = 1369ms, Maximum = 3137ms, Average = 1558ms
The download speed test is fast, but streaming video is slow.
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2 edits | reply to mkcruiser14
You will have difficulty streaming video on Wildblue. At least on my spot beam they implemented Stepped Download Speeds that begin around 11 am and end after 10 pm. If you want to stream a 90 minute movie in 288p (lowest bit rate) from hulu, expect it to take 4 to 6 hours during prime time. You will be trapped in a 2 year service commitment. Wildblue absolutely sucks. If you have other Internet options, stay away from Wildblue.
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| reply to mkcruiser14
So far so good, my old service I had 50 MB total the speeds was maybe 168 up ho idea what download was. I can see a utube video without waiting forever! So far I am ok with WB. |
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6 cr2.sl9mo.ip.att.net 0% 60 60 43.16 45.00 84.92
7 cr2.kc9mo.ip.att.net 0% 60 60 43.48 43.95 44.52
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11 12.86.5.6 0% 60 60 56.27 56.84 76.28
12 ??? 100% 0 60 |
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| Run away. Run far far away. Just finished yet another fight with the GotSky people after disconnecting. Horrible customer service, and it's faster to watch YouTube on my iPhone with 3G than my computer with satellite internet. How sad is that? |
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jbrewno
join:2010-01-21
Port Byron, NY | friends, wild blue Millenicom |
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jbrewno
join:2010-01-21
Port Byron, NY | check out millenicom i meant guys for real! |
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