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[HN9000] What's happening on the 19th?

The above was at Speedtest.com, but if I ping a wiki page I get this:

64 bytes from 173.194.71.103: icmp_req=1 ttl=48 time=39.7 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.71.103: icmp_req=2 ttl=48 time=39.5 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.71.103: icmp_req=3 ttl=48 time=39.9 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.71.103: icmp_req=4 ttl=48 time=39.5 ms

Gotta wonder why these vast differences in ping time?

Three possible reasons off the top of my head;
1. Wiki server not equipped to cope with HughesNet compression algorithma
2. RTT reported was between them and the HughesNet gateway, rather than between them and you
3. Hughes is still messin' with the 9000 gateways

But it's not a universal thing, here's mine:
Ping statistics for 173.194.71.103:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 836ms, Maximum = 915ms, Average = 875ms

Given that I'm HN7000S, I'm inclined to look behind door number three

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HN7000S - 98cm Prodelin/2w "pure" Osiris - ProPlus - G16/1001H - NOC:GTN - NAT 67.142.115.130 - Gateway 66.82.25.10 - DNS 66.82.4.12 and 66.82.4.8 - Firefox 15/MSIE9 - AV/Firewalled by NIS2012

reply to Wyngs
Update happened apparently, but nobody has seen any "improvements" as far as I can tell.

reply to Wyngs
Looks the same here, but maybe the speed drop-offs have stopped. Not sure. Haven't been on long enough to really check it out, but so far it appears pretty steady.