On 11 Feb 2007 14:44:55 -0800, beantown101@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> Here's my download/upload speeds
>
>
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>February 10th, 11:37AM - 332/8 kbps
>February 7th, 07:16PM - 119/15 kbps

<snip>

Some of those aren't too bad, some of 'em are pretty lousy.

Assuming you're running Windows, fire up "perfmon", set it to watch
whatever interface your satellite modem is connected to, and download
something from someplace besides Hughes and see what kind of speed
you get.

Or, go to http://toast.net/performance and see what their test shows.

By the way - when I had a DW6000, I would occasionally go through
periods of extremely poor performance - the support folks wouldn't
even talk to me because I refused to tear down my network and connect
a computer straight to the modem. I didn't much like that, but after
a day or two the performance would always go back up. Your case
appears to be a lot worse than mine was.

--
-fb-