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Viasat is environmentally concerned...yes, they recycle DOA modems to existing customers for the environment:-)
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Viasat wants everybody off the 150GB plans. They want to make the experience great for the MAJORITY. They don't want people to have the pleasure of using their grandfathered plans, and are desperate to get people off them.
My theory is after your modem is booted for awhile, based on the plan, that are sending a signal back to the modem to throttle or deprioritze you (whatever you want to call it). So they are controlling speeds in some way at the modem level.
Just a theory of course, but do some tests. I bet you will find this to be the case.
Want better speeds all the time? Change plans. But then why would you do business with a company that does this to you? Only you can answer that question.
Good luck!
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VeteranSatUser, Champion
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And you are right. You would have to downgrade to less speed and data.
But if you like your plan you can keep your plan.
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Last I knew, speeds are controlled via Modem...commands are sent to it. DOCSIS protocol is underneath Viasat's equipment. One could google this topic.
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But yes, the original modem was the best. But it won't fry eggs and you need your own router.
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And heats the house!My DirecTV mini is like that. It runs at about 165F, and that's normal. Because I can't see it I have to guess, but I imagine that my HN combo modem (w/ WiFi) never gets over 100F. It vents through the top, and it barely feels warm, even after it's been on for hours on end, and with the WiFi enabled (it's normally disabled). Heck, my old, single band Netgear router gets hotter than this thing.
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I am current testing the Verizon prepaid unlimited plan using a 7730L Jetpack. The first day results are good, so I may be soon leaving Viasat after 11 years.
I am going to downgrade to the Liberty 12 GB plan for a month or so until I am confident the Verizon will e a reliable source of internet f or my needs.
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VeteranSatUser, Champion
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Steve, hit me up on DSLReports if you have any questions on transitioning. I have learned some settings that you might want to look at.
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@Micheal McDowell, I am on the prepaid unlimited plan, which has no data limit, unlike the plans on Viasat. I have been using it since Friday evening, so have only used about 15GB so far.
@VetSatUser, I will have to go over to DSLReports once I get some free time.
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About three years ago, VZW apparently considered usage over 200GB/monthly as excessive. But, 4G bandwidth has been increasing as CDMA's bandwidth is phased out. During this time interval, VZW has upgraded many of their 4G towers, which those towers upgraded will have more capacity than in earlier 4G installs.
Viasat does have a vacation plan, which NRTC offers also. Upto 6 months, but a minimum fee is charged. As Viasat is gaining more/more planned commercial usage, along with CAF-II pilgrims when this is approved, loosing customers to wireless carriers will not affect their bottom line.
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I meant on your Liberty 50GB plan, since you switched from your 150GB Freedom plan.
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It is just past 6 now, and speed has dropped to 4.6 Mbps. I am sure during the prime time in the evening, that speed will be slower.
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Liberty Pass speed is showing signs of the evening traffic, down to 3.6 Mbps.
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GabeU, Champion
Does ViaSat further divide its beams into channels, where the modem connects to the least populated channel at the time it's started? And, over time, that channel gets more people on it, causing it to slow?
I ask this because that's what mine is like with HughesNet. This is why power cycling the modem sometimes helps to improve the speed when it starts to get slow, at least temporarily. On the subsequent power up it again chooses the cleanest, or least populated, channel. I didn't know if ViaSat was similar.
Bev, Champion
Jab
There were dedicated Tx/Rx channels on original Wildblue's "birds," users were assigned a specific channel set.
WiMax protocol is being used, "flipping channels" is possible via Frequency Selective Scheduling, but Viasat may or may not do this. Their Tx/Rx equipment would have to be capable, and someone would have to do the required programming.
My uninformed understanding, when aircraft came onboard, Viasat reserved frequencies for them, which means channel flipping did not exist, at least in earlier days. Channel bandwidth can be resized on VS-1 and later birds, but earlier WB's can't, as I understand.
VS-2 is a different bird...it can downlink data on more than one frequency. Offhand, I'd say channel flipping is possible, if it is wise to flip frequencies instantaneously; hence, can their TRIAs handle channel flipping in Ka frequency bands.
Here's a WiMax overview, in tech speak.
Jab
Hughes use to do channel-pair assignments....unless they have stated otherwise, how about the modem reboot just eliminates a modem SNAFU (buffer choke, CPU thermal issues, etc)?
Footnote on Channel Flipping - Be it cellphones, satellite, WISPs, etc., having each CPE unit on frequency is best. I'm not a geek here, but it would be logical to have a CPE unit "drift" its assigned frequency initially before being engaged. I know Tx power is evaluated, but I don't know if frequency is evaluated. Hence, with channel flipping, not channel assignment changes, Tx unit would have to nail freq jumps, perfectly. Changes in channel assignment is possible, but flipping with consumer grade CPE equipment may be risky. With aircraft equipment, they go from beam to beam, so polarity would have to be changed, but an unknown about flipping channels.
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