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Robbing Peter (Anik-F2, WB-1, VS-1) to pay Paul (VS-2), or just another SNAFU.
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Steve Frederick-VS1/Beam314, Champion
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I have been seeing my speeds slowly increasing in the last 2 weeks, suspect due to Viasat2 being opened up to some users. I am sure that things will speed up slowly during the next few months as some of the commercial, military and in-flight aircraft internet services are moved to Viasat2.
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Download :: 1 Mbps 124 kB/s
My Speed :: 991 kbps
88% slower than my average
if that is better, then yes
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Ping
727 ms
Download
0.25 Mbps
Upload
0.45 Mbps
just had the installer back out to check for issues this summer, trimmed a couple of trees and was doing good until about January. when they started reselling my beam. oh well my rural electric is running fiber and when they come thru this irritation stops.
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NRTC customers, over weekend, got video saver turned on, maybe without their awareness (I was not informed). Initially, mine was set to 1.1Mbps, and next day, it was upped to 2.5Mbps to 3.2Mbps range.
So, based upon several other NRTC users, if this was everywhere, in theory, there should have been some type of improvement system wide. When users are in the dark, most all will not turn video saver off since they are not aware of it.
I suspect when most all users are using video saver, this could improve streaming.
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Hard to tell if Viasat-2 is really having an impact yet. Now if it was December and we were still seeing speeds like this, I would say yes!
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VS-2 is making an improvement on the West coast, at least on beam 369. Speed is higher and more stable. Stays faster at night too. :o) I'm on the Freedom 150 @12Mbps.

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There have been times recently when the speed has been startlingly good and there have been times when its been frustratingly slow. In other words, it's satellite.
(and in spite of all of my gripes and I do like to gripe, Viasat is still the best satellite provider... I'm underwhelmed with pricing, with what they've offered thus far in the wake of the VS-2 release, with some of their policies, etc... but hey - they're definitely satisfactory... before and after the release of VS-2)
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Ping: 640ms
Download: 16.01 Mbps
Upload: 1.38 Mbps
Is that good? Facebook video buffers a lot. Have not tried Amazon streaming yet.
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Others simply abuse javascript to preload a bunch of crap and get put in my block list also.
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I have adblock turned on.
Then it's not working, consider looking at the options and making it more restrictive. The risk you run is as VeteranSatUser states - but they can be overcome or you have to make a choice ads vs performance.
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RE: Opera
Update to latest edition..., and also try VPN setting once.
Here is what I use in Waterfox, and am without page loading issue. Desktop PC wired to ASUS router that is hooked to SB2 modem in bridge mode.
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I am pulling 557 kbps tonight (03/15) during Primetime. I would say....nothing has changed for me!
Only 31% of my priority data has been used.
I don't get too hung on up speed. But when it gets this slow, things don't start to work right, and that is a problem.
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I had questioned why Viasat would make San Francisco one of the first areas to be serviced by VS2. I may have figured it out... San Francisco is served by 2 beams, 364 & 369. Viasat moved some heavy-duty government users off VS1, such as the various government users that depend on Viasat for their super-duper high security connections and even Moffett Field air base, which also has a strong NASA presence. The government and military have specialized equipment furnished by Viasat and moving them ASAP probably made them happy. The speeds and stability of beams 364 & 369 has improved and I'll attribute that to Gov. & Military are gone to VS2. So, I no longer consider making SF one the first-list a blunder. The military presence in the San Diego area is enough to qualify them to move first too.
Perhaps Viasat knows what they are doing after all.
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Imho, Government/Military would not lessen the load, but aircraft coming onboard VS-2 would. SFO is "Seventh busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic with over 53 million passengers in 2016"
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