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I specifically followed the roadsigns to be certain that I took the exit for the interstate, but instead I was still shunted onto that heavily traveled 2-lane. The DOT just shrugs and says it's not their problem that they didn't label the exit correctly.
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When you are sitting in traffic barely moving, youve finished your coffee and are late for work, the guy beside you is laying on the horn because he wants your spot ... does it really matter that the posted speed limit is 55 MPH?
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I’m about to tweet Elon to hurry every chance he gets.
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Look up Tooway.
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I got three times that speed ON priority data last night.
On a Saturday at 6PM I am pulling this... Download :: 662 kbps
When it is less than 1Mbps, everything is pretty slow.
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I am becoming agitated because the past 1 1/2 weeks or so my free zone speed has only been 7 Mbps or less. Thats about half what it was previously. Regardless of "speed" I am going SLOW all night long now. I wait until late night to watch a video and now I have to click 3 or 4 times before it will load, and once it does, the buffering begins! Didnt have this problem a month ago. Things are definitely getting worse.
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And with Viasat-2 nowhere in site over most of the country, I have no idea when things will get better.
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Unfortunately high-speed internet options are slim to none in many areas of rural America.
In over 20 years with satellite internet my speeds tonight are no better than in the late 90's. Think about that!
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We were so happy with Exede we went Exede Voice for our home phone about the same time they started the Viasat 2 hype and the "first" sales drive. Thats when everything went downhill.
We had techs out here every month, sometimes multiple times a month. The techs never found anything wrong on our end. (of course) Then they started charging us for the tech calls! I fought long and hard with them over that!
Finally one of the techs (a sub contractor) sat at my kitchen table and explained to me the congestion issue caused by the sales drive and delays in the Viasat 2 launch. Ive not had a tech here since.
I understand. Things happen. But what I can NOT accept is Exede/Viasats handling of the situation, especially with their loyal customer base! And now to do the EXACT SAME THING AGAIN bringing in yet more new customers when 2 is STILL not online utterly disgusts me!
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As a long term satellite Internet user starting during the one way days of using a steerable KU dish for downloads and a TX line for upload with D/L speeds of 250 kbps max the systems have come a long way. Both Hughes and Viasat [wildblue/exede] have made enormous infrastructure investments along with R&D expenditures to get us to what it is today.
The systems we use today run rings around what they did 10 or 15 years ago as most technology. If you absolutely have to have the latest and greatest at the best speeds and more reasonable price then move back in town and deal with the traffic congestion, pollution and crime.
I'm a pretty happy customer overall and just upgraded to the 50 Gig liberty plan on the old bird. Still have the 3am to 6am free period and I set the system to download 3 1Gb shows before I left for work around 4am and these will be ready for me when I get home this afternoon. Complaints on my end.....none! If I have to use the system during peak times I don't watch or stream video or do much besides casual browsing or checking my email and even at the slowest of times I've never had trouble with that.
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I am sure Hughesnet could give me better speed right now. That wouldn't be the case if Viasat-2 was actually in operation and working across the country. But that isn't happening right now
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As I have said many times before, speed did not concern me, so we dealt with the status quo anxiously awaiting Viasat 2 and the promise of "unlimited" data, and of course the subsequent higher speeds. UNTIL the launch of 2 last June and the new sales drive. It has only been the last 6 to 12 months we have suffered with these "below 1 Mbps" speeds. We frequently see speeds below 1 during peak hours. If we go over and get restricted our internet is USELESS outside our free zone until the end of the billing cycle.
I can deal with slow. I can deal with congested times. But when I am paying good money for "high speed internet" and have no internet access, I HAVE A PROBLEM! I can deal with waiting until 2 AM to watch a video, but having to wait until after midnight to check Facebook or my email is ridiculous!
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My hunch: Bean counter limited spending to bare essentials....Viasat had/has several other irons in the fire that required $$$.
Wildblue history
7/17/2004 Anik F2 satellite launched
10/18/2004 First email sent over the WildBlue network
Massive effort 2004-2005 to build out the gateways, IT systems, NMS systems, CPE manufacture capability
Commercial service was established in June 2005.
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I can only confirm one earth gateway exists..which was used to evaluate VS-2, and its beams.
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I left the rat race in a "small" city in Connecticut, population 80,000+ It was like stepping back into 1950. I love it, but I would like "access" to the outside world without having to live in it.
I understand little or nothing can be done, and I dont foresee any sort of compensation, but I would appreciate some TRUTHFUL explanation, or God forbid a heartfelt apology ... something other than "Here! You can sign up for (limited) unlimited now available on your same crowded Viasat 1 beam, with the same congestion, with the same slow speeds, for the nominal fee of 3 times what youre paying now!"
How about a little payback to the loyal customers that have stayed with them through all this instead of focusing on incentives for more new customers that quickly cancel or cant wait to get out of their contracts.
And yes, I turned on video saver the day it came out, then asked myself ... WHY? I can only watch video during my free zone, it might as well be HD.
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I've turned it off, and if one is getting "7 Mbps or less" during LNFZ with it on, that's interesting. I thought throttling would happen all the time
13 February 2006 - “We’ve been shocked at the level of demand in a region including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York,” said Erwin C. Hudson, WildBlue’s chief technology officer. “To preserve the quality of the service for our existing customers, we are no longer accepting new subscribers on these two beams.
Video streaming has grown and grown...that's why video throttling plans exist today.
I try to download video, when possible, during non-primetimes, and do web-surfing during primetimes. Video sites I'm aware of tend to use much slower speeds than 7Mbps.
From looking at updated Viasat maps, it appears first two satellites (Anik-F2 & WB-1) have active beams in western states, with none eastward. If true, this suggests none of these beams are in your area, and all eastern users got transferred to VS-1.
So, maybe in another month or two, VS-2 might offer relief, if its possible to get onboard. When VS-1 launched, new customers were "welcomed," but existing Wildblue customers had to wait. It might be different in crowded beams.
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I'm one of those new subscribers they never should have added. They sold me Viasat 2 and I didn't find out until installation was nearly complete that that wasn't what was being installed (when I saw the incorrect modem come out, which I only knew to identify due to this forum). I immediately objected to both the installer and the company but got nothing but a collective shrug and a reminder that I have a 2 year contract.
I don't understand how this is legal, honestly. If I go to buy a car and spend a month shopping around before selecting one, then hand over a check to buy the one I choose, *I get the car I chose*. Not some other random car, with the defense being that the one I picked actually isn't on the lot after all. Consumers can't make reasonable choices about what they are buying when companies deliberately misrepresent the product.
Furthermore, they specifically told me during the sales process that they 'never' oversell their service unlike other companies, and that we'd have a bare minimum of 5 Mbps even if we hit deprioritization. Instead I see evening speeds typically measured in kbps even on priority data, daytime speeds somewhat better but still often under 1 Mbps, and if we run out of priority data (we are in the process of setting up a new computer, which requires a very frustrating amount of downloading), then it's essentially unusable.
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My LNFZ speeds are checked when I scroll my FB feed and have to wait for more posts to load, or I click on a post for a local for sale ad then sit and wait for it to load. The wife and I play a social media game, Forge of Empires and some nights it is horribly slow. I play on my PC, she does everything on her smart phone, we can both tell when the internet is slow. Completely different devices, on completely different operating systems and it affects us both, and may be fine in a few hours. Its safe to say its not on "our end".
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October 7, 2017: Facebook Incredibly Slow (almost unusable) in Chrome
I actually figured out after doing some more googling. It was being caused by the amount of active session that the account was in on various devices. There were something like 400 active session from as far back as 2012. I ended all of those and it seems to be working fine now.
If anyone else has this issue, all you have to do is go to: Setting > Security, Click on the "Where You're Logged in " tab and end all the sessions.
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If WiFi modem is being used, put a fan on it
LIke I said, I just surf during primetime, and download vids mostly in non-prime hours, mostly LNFZ hours. There are programs out there to do off hours downloads.
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Well....do a Testmy.net Here's mine, with correct time when tested
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