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| Thread ID: 91373 | 2008-07-04 20:49:00 | satellite broadband feedback please | penguin2 (13180) | Press F1 |
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| 685307 | 2008-07-04 20:49:00 | Recently we purchased satellite broadband thru Farmside on the expectation that we would get very quick internet service (ie almost instantaneous access to pages - their words). We have found that the pages are being received only slightly quicker than the older dial up (although receiving emails is quicker). We are on the cheapest plan ($100 per month for 256Kbps down and 128Kbps up) but was expecting much quicker downloading. Farmside have since said that the slow downloading is because the signal needs to bounch from Wellington to somewhere to Singapore to the satellite and back again before it gets to my machine. I have tested the system with Speedtest.net and it is running sightly below expectation (but there-abouts). Any feedback??? | penguin2 (13180) | ||
| 685308 | 2008-07-04 22:16:00 | I know a number of people that are using farmside and are complaining about speed, almost identical to what you are saying. My experience with sat broadband was with ihug (sat in dial out - 45 a month about two years ago before bordernet took them over. At that time are speeds were very good. cant remember what they were exactly but far better than dial up. |
woc (13210) | ||
| 685309 | 2008-07-04 23:30:00 | Recently we purchased satellite broadband thru Farmside We are on the cheapest plan ($100 per month for 256Kbps down and 128Kbps up) Bad move. Yes it may be faster than dialup but thats the slow plan. Farmside is the Xtra equivalent of ADSL broadband. Expensive, slack help, etc etc. For $100 a month this is what you can get with Wireless Nation: 512k/256k 10GB $99.95 1Mbps/340k 5GB $99.95 or 512k/256k 5GB $79.95 1Mbps/340k 3GB $79.95 Thats including GST too. There are loads of internet companies providing Ipstars satellite broadband. WN is one of the better ones. Farmside sucks. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 685310 | 2008-07-05 03:45:00 | check the latency. one of the problems with sat reguardless of who through, is the time it takes for requests to be sent and a reply received. while data flow is small that delay can make it seem slow. this is expecially so if a web page has many requests in it. its will proberly notice actuall file downloads go full speed but web pages go quite slow. you can do a few things like blocking ads etc to cut down on the amount of requests it does. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 685311 | 2008-07-05 06:04:00 | how to check the latency period? (i've used Speednet.com and got 236kbps in and 85 out for the 256 and 128 out system I'm paying for) how to block the ads? any other suggestions for speeding up the system? (I've just looked at wireless nation and bordernet and they look interesting) thanks |
penguin2 (13180) | ||
| 685312 | 2008-07-05 06:39:00 | ping a server. plenty of apps that can ping/trace routes if you wat to see the time delay between each one. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 685313 | 2008-07-05 08:34:00 | how to check the latency period? (i've used Speednet.com and got 236kbps in and 85 out Wow that sucks. Yes Satellite has a 1sec lag. Click Start, select Run, type cmd and click ok. A command window (black) comes up. Now type ping www.google.com and press enter. Note how many ms at the end of each reply. Thats the lag. However I know some people with WN satellite. One has both her PC and her sons PS3 connected. Yes he does play online with it. No, he hasn't complained once. They do have a 1mbps down plan......... I've done speed tests on hers and it comes out very close to the advertised speeds. Every time I tried it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 685314 | 2008-07-05 08:39:00 | You might try tweaking the TCP settings? but that won't help with the latency issues. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 685315 | 2008-07-05 21:42:00 | They need to get a faster plan. | pctek (84) | ||
| 685316 | 2008-07-06 07:03:00 | looking into wireless nation now. Please note that the one advantage with Farmside is that you don't have to pay outright for the equipment (although the monthly fee is higher) and they maintain the equipment. In theory they should upgarde the equipment when it is getting too old (waiting to see it this will happen....). When I first looked into satellite providers most were charging $3000 to $4000 for the equipment then a monthly charge of $100 for the basic plans (but I didn't know about WN or BorderNet). Latency was 945ms |
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