Very nice , was this "tweaking" ....or an act of GOD ? LOL jk
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Everyone is asleep now, nice for a 6000 though.

I know that at the present time DirecWay is in the process of adding several thousand switches to their systems to accomodate the increase in customers they have walking through their doors, which has been triple what they expected so they were unprepared (meaning for their DW6000 systems ...any of them).  Eventually, they'll have obtained enough bandwidth to be able to keep everyone running at a decent speed, but for the time-being everyone is going to be seeing fluctuations of all kinds in their speeds until everyone has their own switch again.  Sometimes steadily increasing only to fall through the floor, and vice versa.  So far mine seems to be stable and averaging 1000Kbps, but dropping to as low as 50Kbps at 2PM for the past two days ....which makes it impossible to check mail let alone work this forum!  That's fine.  After all, if I had a screaming connection speed all I would do is hit my FAP limit too fast, then have to wait until I became "un-FAP'ed" ....so 1000Kbps is good enough considering all aspects of this type of Internet connection.  (But I could easily live without the danged FAP limits)!

Hi resopalrabotnick,

Your thinking is "dead center."  You are talking in the neighborhood of about 35% as related to switches/speed/shared bankwidth.  As you can see if you are "sharing" a switch with several other users who (horrors) are all downloading like there is no tomorrow ....you'll fall through the floor with regard to speed. 

During the periods that you experience "bursts", which happens alot for me, that simply translates "I'm on my own switch."  (And thus have full speed providing the weather is decent over me and NOC.  (It's takes some horribly bad weather to really trash your speed though.  Heavy snow will reflect your signals, and heavy rains will prevent (or can prevent) up to 88% of your upstream from getting to the bird (your transponder "radio" emitter ...whatever you wish to call it, is only using 1/2 of a watt for power!  But considering the leaps and bounds of microwave technology these days that's alot of power!

Anyway ...GOOD THINKING on your part!  Most wouldn't consider it when given the info, so I assume you have an electronics background or a "gift" for such things.   

Cheers!

AHA!

Then there is no doubt you have an extensive background (and hands on) in the electronics field.  A killer combo.  I received all my training from the US Navy S.E.A.L. team (retired now).  Learned alot in between getting shot at!  lol....

Toward the end of my career with the TEAM ...we had the pleasure of working with your KSK for about a month.  Traded alot of inside info and discovered that they were treated just as rotten as we were!  lol... but that's all part of being special forces.  Nobody gets any slack!

vielen Dank for your bit of info!