Satelite Bench.

[fshanda]

I finaly have my satelite internet connection up and working after 3 months.

It took the first installer 2 tries with little success. The connection only lasted 2 or 3 days each time and then would die. Direcway needs a signal strength of 30 to function properly and mine would go from 68 to 10 and never recover. Tech support could not help with the problem so we were having it out with Direcway to take the hardware back and refund our money.

Part of the process was to have a second installer come and see what he could do. His installation was extremely professional compared to the first installation. He checked every component and all of the cabling. Replaced both modems and the usb cable. He got a full signal at the dish but nothing at the system so he ran a jumper cable from the dish to the system and bypassed the original coax cabling. Bam, the system was up and running. The first installers cabling wound up being faulty.

Now im enjoying a quick broadband connection for the first time.

I know you want to see them so heres the speed tests I took this morning. At peak usage times im getting around 400-600 kbps wich is still very good compared to what we had.

http://www.fourseasonshvac.com/images/dslreportstest.jpg

http://www.fourseasonshvac.com/images/bandwidthplacetest2.jpg

[Centurion]

great to see you getting good speed- C

[Mntsnow]

Congrats! A fast download is always nice :)

(although I bet you guys are happy I have a fairly fast upload speed too!)

[NDC]

Me no happy with my upload speeds... It used to be so fast in Korea since they didn't limit the bandwidth or charge extra...

[jad1097]

Nice fshanda. Have you run into a problem with the fair use policy yet?

[fshanda]

No problem with the FAP so far. I dont download that much stuff anyways. It is nice to be able to do a Windows update in a few minutes instead of an hour or more. I might even finish downloading SP3 for Win 2000 now. I was up to 3 hours before I gave up a few weeks ago.

I just wanted a good allways on connection that had some good speed for when I realy needed it. Im just starting to browse sites that offer streaming media. I've had to avoid those sites for years and now I can finaly enjoy everything that the net has to offer.

I also have my phone back. I didnt realize how many calls we were missing while we were connect to the net.

[jad1097]

LOL missing the calls are a good thing.

Good to hear you have not had any problems with the FAP yet. They should let you grab 600-700MB’s at a time instead of 400 just so you can get linux ISO’s.

Anyhow welcome to the world of broadband where you can enjoy the internet instead of hating the World Wide Wait.