opus74
Deep Thought
Premium
join:2002-03-04
Coello, IL
clubs: 
 ·WildBlue
| reply to cmcdaniel
Re: wildblue internet connection very slow how do I change it?
You are not going to lower your ping time on a satellite connection.
You are accessing a sat that is 22,300 miles away.
So figure it out:
You to WB gateway 22,300 miles.....
Gateway time..... ? ms
Internet time....probably 200 ms......
Gateway time...... ? ms
WB to you 22,300 miles.
Once you think about it 1700 aint half bad.
It's the nature of the beast.
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Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
·WildBlue
 ·TDS
| quote:
You are not going to lower your ping time on a satellite connection.
You are accessing a sat that is 22,300 miles away.
So figure it out:
You to WB gateway 22,300 miles.....
Gateway time..... ? ms
Internet time....probably 200 ms......
Gateway time...... ? ms
WB to you 22,300 miles.
Once you think about it 1700 aint half bad.
It's the nature of the beast.
1700 is terrible. It's over twice and close to 3 times longer/slower than the physical latency of the satellite connection itself accounts for.
Here is the latency wildblue delivered for the first year in 2005:
ping -n 10 yahoo.com
Pinging yahoo.com [66.94.234.13] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=648ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=727ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=730ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=726ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=723ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=723ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=641ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=654ms TTL=48
Reply from 66.94.234.13: bytes=32 time=643ms TTL=48
Ping statistics for 66.94.234.13:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 641ms, Maximum = 730ms, Average = 685ms
ping -n 10 google.com
Pinging google.com [216.239.37.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=682ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=600ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=600ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=695ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=680ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=679ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=678ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=645ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=644ms TTL=238
Reply from 216.239.37.99: bytes=32 time=603ms TTL=238
Ping statistics for 216.239.37.99:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 600ms, Maximum = 695ms, Average = 650ms
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Very happy TDS DSL user | Wildblue in Lake Michigan |
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Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
·WildBlue
·TDS
| P.S. not that there is anything you can do as a customer about the wildblue traffic shaping now in place -- generally the experience is still ok, but it's not as snappy/quick as it was at first that we saw with our own eyes for the first year of service.
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Very happy TDS DSL user | Wildblue in Lake Michigan |
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opus74
Deep Thought
Premium
join:2002-03-04
Coello, IL
clubs:
·WildBlue
| said by Island Jeff  :P.S. not that there is anything you can do as a customer about the wildblue traffic shaping now in place -- generally the experience is still ok, but it's not as snappy/quick as it was at first that we saw with our own eyes for the first year of service. That was my point. The old daze (10/05) were so much better..... 
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Lordy, I have loved some ladies and I have loved Jim Beam and they both tried to kill me in 1973. |
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tim_k
Buttons, Bows, Beamer, Shadow, Kasey
Premium
join:2002-02-02
Stewartstown, PA
 ·Millenicom
·WildBlue
| reply to opus74
said by opus74 :Once you think about it 1700 aint half bad. It's the nature of the beast. Without traffic shaping pings would be around 600-700. When I connected to my neighbors Hughs satellite internet, I could definitely tell a big difference in page load times between Hughs and WB. My only advice for the OP is see if he can get EVDO, but it looks like he's stuck with the WB contract for now.
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