MichaelRS
join:2006-06-10
Half Moon Bay, CA
 ·WildBlue
| reply to grohgreg
Re: What's going on with Spaceway 3?
grohgreg, with your 35 years of experience in satellite you should indeed do better than skirt around the issue.
The speeds you posted are not taken during the core time in question and you have no updated measurements since Apr 5.
In my case the 4-12 slowdown started around Apr 25. Do yourself and ourself a favor of honesty and take measurements now (aka today) between 4pm and 12AM EDT.
If you truly do not have any reduction in speed to 100Kbps I am sure you will in no time because I will jump on your sat & transponder in no time (and so will everybody else).
HNS Exec Cust Care has confirmed (!) that 75% (!) have traffic shaping going on and they (HNS) hope that churn and attrition will move people away.
HN is loaded with debt and can't afford to buy more capacity (ie no more debt/loans) and MUST bring Spaceway to generate more (read: NEW) customers and not make existing customers happy. This is not anymore a technical issue, it is a business decision about the survival of the company and how you prove that to investors. Technically they need to keep the system alive so they throttle everyone down, businesswise, they can't buy more capacity.
If you need better service go iDirect or T-1, and your 35 years of satellite experience will say that too.
BTW, re: this ka Band and spot technology, isn't that what WildBlue used and cratered on ??? All fast adopters on one spot beam and then speed goes down to a crawl and the next thing is that they throttle things down.
It is supply (1) and demand (a lot).
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