On Feb 12, 7:50 am, funkbastler <nob...@nowhere.somewhere.us> wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2007 14:44:55 -0800, beantown...@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Here's my download/upload speeds
>
> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------Â*------
> >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 tohttp://toast.net/performanceand 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-

I use Windows XP Task Manager (CTL-ALT-DEL) to monitor my network
activity. I then click on the Networking tab and you get a visual real
time graph that shows you the activity on the network. When I monitor
the activity I can see long periods where this is no activity on the
network and the page I'm loading has not completed. My processor is
running at between 4-10 percent which means the delay is not on my
end. I'll then see tiny spikes in the graph that look like fine saw
teeth and then long delays. This convinces me the delays are on their
network and their performance is wildly unpredictable. This company
has network capacity issues but wont admit it because it would result
in customers demanding refunds
Can anyone tell me if there is a simple way of knowing when your under
their FAP restrictions?