Cricket, I remember reading awhile back that some on G4 were having probs w/ VPN connecting right now. I don't recall all the details, but you might want to post this over on the Hughes Community forum for one of the mods to answer, and also see if there is any info about this already posted. You just may want to put it on hold until you get an answer.
I think there are issues with VPN and Gen4, but, I am not certain... It seems some people can't get it to work, and the ones that do, notice that the speeds are somewhat iffy with it.
The speed issue isn't congestion related, it's more or less them trying to load balance the system properly IMO. I typically see 7.0 to 10Mbps. Though, there are nights it dips to virtually nothing out of no where.
»community.myhughesnet.co ··· t/topics Good luck over there. I also am on a HN7000s. After looking the plans over and the amount of Gen4 problems I'm staying with what I have.