Rural High Speed Internet

[bearhawk]

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.)

It means the service is way slower than cable Internet

Pinging google.com [64.233.167.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 44ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 44ms

 

[srjones]

It means the service is way slower than cable Internet

Pinging google.com [64.233.167.99] with 32 bytes of data:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 44ms, Maximum = 45ms, Average = 44ms

Yes and no. Slower to react/respond, sure, but once the bits start flowing it flows at high speed.

 

[riptides]

Yes and no. Slower to react/respond, sure, but once the bits start flowing it flows at high speed.

That is what the internet experience is all about! Just how are you classifying "high speed"?

-Mike Z.

 

[AlanB]

Well, I was able to do the ping last night, but again, it was so jacked I could not post it on TBN. My computer hates TBN but somehow likes "myspace"

Anyway, the first time I did it I came up with
Min 1267 Max 3603 Avg 2650
which I thought pretty good, but then I noticed it said 4 packets sent, 3 recieved, 25% lost packets

So I did it several more times

Avg's
1300
1367
1917
1355
1463

Every second or third "ping" it would loose a packet, I am guessing that means that 25% of the info every so often gets lost in the signal, which cannot be good.

Have not heard back from Joe yet, but will hunt him down like a dog, and add some mountain water too the offer

 

[WVBill]

Yes and no. Slower to react/respond, sure, but once the bits start flowing it flows at high speed.

I have found that the natural latency of my Hughesnet service (the react/respond time) is a significant factor in the percieved speed on many web pages. If a web page contains links to several other web site in order to present information - the latency will apply to EACH of those elements of the web page in turn. Satellite latency is 250ms (1/4 second) minimum for each call to another web site just due to the speed of light and distance to the satellite. So, in my experience, if a web page contains links to four other web pages for content, it will take at least 1 second to completely present all of the content on the page. Certainly enough to notice the difference between my "direct" connection at the office and at home.

Other web pages appear to be just about as fast at the office and at home. TBN is somewhere in between.

It's just something those of us who only have two options (satellite or dial-up) have to live with.

WVBill

 

[RobS]

I tried this ping thing (like that?) at work but firewalls/security etc. prevent anything meaningful. I'm home now but on Vista. How do I get the "run" dialog? Or maybe a better question is, how do I do the ping thing from Vista?

 

[bearhawk]

I tried this ping thing (like that?) at work but firewalls/security etc. prevent anything meaningful. I'm home now but on Vista. How do I get the "run" dialog? Or maybe a better question is, how do I do the ping thing from Vista?

If you don't have a command prompt, and I actually don't remember where it is. I had a dual boot XP Vista box, but I ended up taking Vista off.

If it still has a "Start >> Run" then type in

ping google(.) com >> C:\pinggoogle.txt

without the ()

and it will create a text file in the root of C

 

[RobS]

If you don't have a command prompt, and I actually don't remember where it is. I had a dual boot XP Vista box, but I ended up taking Vista off.

If it still has a "Start >> Run" then type in

ping google(.) com >> C:\pinggoogle.txt

without the ()

and it will create a text file in the root of C

I don't have a "run" after the "start".

 

[bearhawk]

I don't have a "run" after the "start".

Stupid Vista !

A quick search finds :

Opening the Command Prompt

To begin with, you can open a Command Prompt window in Vista in all the same ways that you can in Windows XP. You can use the Command Prompt shortcut on the Start menu or you can type CMD in the Run dialog box.

So the run has to be somewhere.

Any Vista users care to share where?

 

[MossRoad]

You can hold down the SHIFT key and then RIGHT CLICK on any folder. The menu that pops up has an item called OPEN COMMAND WINDOW HERE. I think you should be able to do this while right clicking on the start button, as well.

 

[lfarrar]

Depending on how much useage, I use at my mountain house is Sprint on my Treo 700WX with 15 buck a month unlimited data plan. I can attach my laptop with USB cable 15 buck item and a little program called PDAnet one time cost of 39 bucks if I remember. I have speed tested at close to 700kbs on EVO.

Lou

 

[bearhawk]

Depending on how much useage, I use at my mountain house is Sprint on my Treo 700WX with 15 buck a month unlimited data plan. I can attach my laptop with USB cable 15 buck item and a little program called PDAnet one time cost of 39 bucks if I remember. I have speed tested at close to 700kbs on EVO.

Lou

Be careful, Sprint likes to charge extra for the treo to be uses a a data modem..