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Re: Which is better, Wild Blue or AT&T via tethering said by Sircolby45:Not to mention you will be stuck on the current traffic shaping system Wildblue has in place, which is atrocious.
Atrocious - Excessively and wantonly savage or cruel; heinously wicked. M17. SOED
You have proof about ViaSat-1 (actual usage) of this 'atrocious' behavior?
Web browsing has not been an issue for me on spotbeam I use...hence, YMMV, but your generalizations do not represent all WB/ViaSat's users experiences.
Remember, "Danish queen sees no need for cell-phone/internet," and she finds it "very peaceful" to be offline.
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| said by DrStrangLov :said by Sircolby45:Not to mention you will be stuck on the current traffic shaping system Wildblue has in place, which is atrocious.
Atrocious - Excessively and wantonly savage or cruel; heinously wicked. M17. SOED You have proof about ViaSat-1 (actual usage) of this 'atrocious' behavior? Web browsing has not been an issue for me on spotbeam I use...hence, YMMV, but your generalizations do not represent all WB/ViaSat's users experiences. Remember, "Danish queen sees no need for cell-phone/internet," and she finds it "very peaceful" to be offline. » mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/odd/news···00c.html I would love for you to point out anywhere in my post that I mentioned Viasat-1. I said "current traffic shaping system." Also yes their traffic shaping policy that makes pings 1200-3000+ is atrocious and no YM does not vary.
"Remember, "Danish queen sees no need for cell-phone/internet," and she finds it "very peaceful" to be offline."
That is relevant how?
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How to Stop and Smell the Flowers
'Stop and smell the flowers', is a saying that is really not related to flowers at all. It is a reminder, a message, for each of us, to stop rushing, stop working late, time passes quickly. Stop and enjoy the day, the moment and the minute. Each minute that you miss, is time lost and will not return to you again.
»www.wikihow.com/Stop-and-Smell-the-Flowers
Could one go a week without internet? YMMV...but different strokes for different folks, and all internet users do not have the same habits. In fact, typical American watches more TV than internet usage. |
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| said by DrStrangLov :"you will be stuck on....which is atrocious."
I must have a reading problem because I don't see Viasat-1 anywhere in that sentence.
If you were paying attention you would have known I was referring to the legacy plans, which do have the old traffic shaping. I was not referencing Viasat-1. I am aware that it will have a different traffic shaping policy.
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Dawson Springs, KY | Hmmm. Maybe NEWS has stumbled upon a potential new sales strategy: "Stop and Smell the Wildblue".
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| said by grohgreg:Hmmm. Maybe NEWS has stumbled upon a potential new sales strategy: "Stop and Smell the Wildblue".
//greg//
Lol just think of all the time you will have to "stop and smell the flowers" when you hit your entire months bandwidth cap in a week!
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Looking @ speedtest.net Wildblue results I see a couple @15MB/s. I assume Viasat.
However, personally my experience has never come close to the package advertised speeds for current Wildblue packages so I don't think I'll be doing the upgrade.
Currently:-»www.speedtest.net/result/1721858953.png
Earlier on today was another matter entirely:
Incoming Outgoing
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Current Transfer Rate 13.5 KB/s 1.79 KB/s
Average Transfer Rate 13.5 KB/s 2.82 KB/s
Maximum Transfer Rate 191 KB/s 44.5 KB/s
Total Data Transferred 25.8 MB 5.38 MB
Since 1/21/2012 11:06:23 AM
Elapsed time: 00-32-32
and earlier still:
Incoming Outgoing
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Current Transfer Rate 85 bytes/s 0 bytes/s
Average Transfer Rate 294 bytes/s 73 bytes/s
Maximum Transfer Rate 9.16 KB/s 2.71 KB/s
Total Data Transferred 86.3 KB 21.6 KB
Since 1/21/2012 10:53:41 AM
Elapsed time: 00-05-00
On ringing Wildblue Tech, I gave up after waiting 12 minutes. |
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grohgregDunno. Ask The Chief
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1 edit | said by n1581j :Looking @ speedtest.net Wildblue results I see a couple @15MB/s.
I made the same bit/byte mistake a few days ago. I'm inclined to believe they were either corrupt test results, or you meant to type 15Mb/s rather than 15MB/s. Plus, not many speed test servers are configured to deal with the compression algorithms inherent to consumer satellite connections. Using an incompatible speed test site can often provide misleading results.
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said by n1581j :Looking @ speedtest.net
FYI, in the past, WB/Hughes users used TestMy
»testmy.net
as official tester program since others may be prone to errors; as in your last test result, the ping time is most likely incorrect.
Further, these test results are shown in separate threads like this one:
»Current Status: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Its best to use a larger packet download, like 866kB or higher; and of course, not performing other activities.
Over in Hughes forum, one user notes that "The testmy.net results are interesting but goofy to the point of being laughable. Three more consecutive tests give me these results. No way can I be downloading more than a megabyte per second."
»[HN9000] Speed increase
So, be careful about speed test interpretation...for sure, these Hughes results are "fool's gold" at 10 mbps on a 1 mbps plan. |
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micwa
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Seminary, MS | reply to mtn hermit
Using acceleration software can make the results higher than they really are. |
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