Lance, Howdy neighbor! Obviously Starband has you on the IA7 satellite. On the GE4 bird they have lost lease on majority of their transponders and have overloaded the remaining ones. Therefore they have throttled port 119 making the news server useless. speed there is less than half of dial up.
Your neighbor
Mr Ranger
By the way it's -3 degrees here now. What's it there?
No i'am on GE4 cluster 4 subcluster 74 i have had only had 1 day where my speed was down to 500Kbps and that was during this.
" I just got off the phone with StarBand. They are very
aware of the situation with the newsgroups. As you know the movement from
cluster 5 to cluster 4 has caused an imbalance in the system and things will
hopefully level off once everyone is moved by Dec 31.
They were throttling the newsgroups to give more bandwidth to http, ftp &
email during this migration and this afternoon tried to give some back to
the newsgroups (you might have seen it get better after 12noon EST) and
wound
up slowing down http downloads. They are trying to figure out how to give
some back to newsgroups without slowing something else down, so as you see
they are aware of the situation and working on it."
robin
Otherwise i run pretty much like this.
::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 1002 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)
Download Speed is:: 122 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 18 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 8.39 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=GNBDI0JPA
::::::::::.. Upload Stats ..::::::::::
Connection is:: 200 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB)
Upload Speed is:: 24 kB/s
Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/
Bottom Line:: 4 times faster than 56K you can upload 1MB in 42.67 second(s)
Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/cgi-bin/get.cgi?Test_ID=IMUXGN20E
Also they have been doing some maintenance and load-balancing.
Dear StarBand Member,
Our engineers are currently conducting network maintenance and load-balancing
activities to ensure proper operation of the network. Due to the nature of the
maintenance, it will be performed at various times throughout the day over the next
few weeks.
During this period you may experience speeds resembling those usually only
experienced during peak usage hours. Please do not worry, as it is a function of
the network maintenance. Rest assured, our engineers are monitoring network
performance very closely and will try to minimize the impact on your service.
Thank you for your patience as we make the StarBand network work better for you.
The StarBand Team
Plus they will have a new sat that willl be up in a couple of months.
I have 484 pro small office plan so it may be not be affecting me as much, but i have not seen alot of complaints at starbandusers, and there is quite a few dealers/installers their.
And it's -20° here now. I bet rev would love to be here now. 
Do you think your good enough to write news for testmy.net? 
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