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Luvfishin
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join:2001-12-06
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clubs: | WELL SAID Birdonawire, one of the best, logical reviews I've read in a long time. Good insight but I sure wish I had bursts of over 500.
My down is about 400 and up is about 1-18. In Southern Ontario. | |
| | birdonawire
join:2002-02-16
Polk, OH
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|  Re: WELL SAID
RWIN: 131070
MTU: 1500
Window scaling: Yes
Time stamping: No
Selective acks: Default
Path MTU Discovery: Default
Black Hole Detection: Default
The Max Duplicate Acks and TTL parameters have nothing in them. After doing these tweaks, my speeds really jumped. I average about 700kbs pretty consistently and often get those higher bursts around 1Mb late in the evening. Not surprising, since satellite is a shared "pipe" much like cable. My upload speeds improved some but not as impressively as my download speeds. On a good evening, I can upload around 50kbs but it's usually closer to 30. I haven't seen that 50kbs speed very often, though! 30-50 tends to be the norm. I've seen it even as low as around 20kbs up. I honestly don't think anyone has ever really experienced the full 128kbs that is advertised for the system. But for the most part it is much better than dial-up. A lot of people tend to forget that even when they are using a 56k modem, they are not getting anywhere near 56k transfer speeds (even if they "see" that they are connected at 56k). Instead, they actually get from between 4kbs and maybe 7 or 8kbs transfer rates at best. The rest of the speed is swamped by the overhead of the line control protocols and such. So being able to upload at 30kbs, at worst, is a whole lot better than anything you would get on a 56k modem!
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Luvfishin
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clubs: | Just a a quick question. Are you using two way satellite(DRS) or one way with an isp (SRS)? | |
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| boonies too I too am way out in the boonies and do everything through a data connection. I was one of the original direcpc/hughes clients, I guess a beta since they didn't bill me the first 6-8 months. Back then download was satelite and upload was through a modem. It was only fit for downloading data, I had two ISDN circuits for real work, 128k each, it worked, they were about $110 each per month. Dialup averaging 16k was out of the question. I eventually replaced the two ISDN circuits and satellite, and phone service with a single T1 and voip from packet8 (T1 NOT from packet8).
Order a full 1.54 T1, prices are now down to $300/month including local loops for rural areas. Your productivity will skyrocket, VPN is rock solid. | |
| | birdonawire
join:2002-02-16
Polk, OH
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| Re: boonies too Yeah, I remember that kind of system! Years back, we had the grey-dish phone-line-return system that uploaded via a dial-up modem connected to your ISP, and downloaded data over the dish. The satellite modem had a bad habit of overheating (that sucker really got hot), and when they came out with the new 2-way service the indoor equipment was pretty much two of the old-style modems, one stacked on top of the other, and since they were the same kind of modem that was long known to overheat, you'd now have two modems overheating unless you set a fan on top of the modem cases themselves to draw off some of the heat. Amazing how far things have come since then!
How is your T1 configured? Is it a PRI or a bundled T1 with an Internet port? I've priced them off-and-on through the years but always nearly fell over at the price (which was close to 3 times what you are paying for yours).  | |
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Actually had a devil of a time getting the Sat to work with XP. The tech at Bell/Expressvu/Direcpc went through a 2 hour manual install and it seems to work. At the time (Dec 2001) they had no software for XP yet.