Rural High Speed Internet

[riptides]

Hook up to the net. Open a browser to a web page of your choice.

Start -- Run -- type in CMD

In the window that opens type

Ping Google

Post your results. Min Max and Average.

-Mike Z.

 

[WarrenF]

Well Warren, let me try a question, not even sure I know enough to ask an intelligent question though.

Ok, have Wildblue, mid level, unfortunately at work I am "direct" if you will, so unfortunately I am used to it working faster then me (which is not all that fast)

My question is, I cannot decide if it is my computer, or the Wildblue that is making me so slow at the house.

I bought system mechanic to help with download problems, of course the first thing it wants to do is download a huge file.. I should be a software designer.

So I am going to outthink it (yeah, right) and take the internet offline, and run off disc. Well, I jump through hoops, this that and the other thing, and at the end, you have to hook too the internet to verify the code I just typed in, so when it hooks to the internet, it wants to again do a huge download!

So, my thoughts are, take it too a computer place and have them evaluate my computer and look at the internet there with it, then run it at the house and compare it too see if my Wildblue looks tragic.

Or, bribe my buddy a wildblue installer into coming too the house and evaluating my wildblue setup and seeing if it is functioning OK.

Which way would you go.

WOW, Let me see if I can explain this....I have started this reply four times to try to explain a process....and give up. Bribe your buddy and ask him if your computer has the wildblue optimizer installed on it. Then check to see if page loading is faster with it turned off or turned on. Also, do you regularly clear your cookies and history? Are you sure you have not run into the FAP policy? Go to the customer portal and look around....you can see your usage rate in there.

Also you might ask your buddy to check the admin site and see if your system is running at optimum performance through the SVT scores. If you wish, you could PM me your mac address and I could check that for you and see if your system is running good.

I will just simply say this as an observation. Check with some computer geeks who really understand virus programs. MacAfee, and Norton really seem to run conflicts with computers. That is simply my observation.

I can make the Wildblue systems run....but when you get INSIDE the computer....I am not smart. I have "Dumb Kid of an Idaho dirt farmer" tattooed on my forehead.

 

[AlanB]

Ok, I ping google I click on start, then run, then if I type in CMD in the dialog box and then type in ping google it says it cannot find host google.

If I click on start then run, then type in Ping Google in the dialouge box, it blinks up then disappears....................

I will write Joe tomorrow and see if an offer of hot steaks and cold beer has any allure

 

[bearhawk]

What you didn't see is that tbn fixed the actual thing you should have typed in with a hyperlink.

So

start >> run

type in cmd

opens a command prompt

then type ping google(.)com without the ()

 

[AlanB]

Will try again tonight, thanks for the clarification, I should have thought of, realized that, but did not.

That said, if it has any relevance, I was coming to type my answer here this morning as I sat there trying to get my response to post for 10 minutes last night and never had any indication that it went, but obviously it came through.

Think I will Ping JOE today, heck, cold beer and steak sounds good too me

 

[txdon]

AlanB, I did the google ping with Wildblue, mid level, central Texas, noon, and the results were:
Min - 1121ms
Max - 1463ms
Average - 1285ms

(Now if I just knew what it means.)

 

[Alan L.]

I have wireless. The signal comes off a transmitter on top of a water tower 5 miles away. I have an antenna that points to it. The signal comes into the house where it plugs into my wireless router.

I pay $40 a month for about 500K download and 380-400K upload.

Weather doesn't affect it, although it does give some trouble every few weeks.

 

[srjones]

AlanB, I did the google ping with Wildblue, mid level, central Texas, noon, and the results were:
Min - 1121ms
Max - 1463ms
Average - 1285ms

(Now if I just knew what it means.)

That's your latency in milliseconds. Basically, from the time your system send a packet to the time it recieves a response is anywhere from 1.1 seconds to 1.4 seconds.

Unfortunatly, for gaming and/or VPN it's unbearably painful to the point of unusable. However, for large files and streaming media it should work well.

 

[srjones]

While we're all on the subject, keep on WiMax which should be rolling out soon on a large scale soon. Clearwire, for example...

Clearwire Coverage Areas and Maps

 

[riptides]

Unfortunate by the time Clearwire gets National they will will be roadkill from Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. Verizon just made a major investment in frequency bandwidth and, well, they have infrastructure.

I see the telcos uping the ante every year. It will be interesting and a great time to ba a consumer in 2010.

-Mike Z.