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I'm back on the road using Hughes for the first time in about 3 months.
It seems to me that the bucket replenishment is quicker than I remember it in the past, I can download 30 or 40 MB and be back to a full bucket in an hour or so. In the past it took longer to get back to full. Even a Microsoft security update last evening didn't put a big dent in the bucket.
Has something changed or is it just my imagination?
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Imagination, I suspect. What is your bucket capacity?
The MS monthly update from yesterday ran a little over 50MB on my Win7/64 laptop, with 13 updates. I ran the update a couple hours back and my bucket is full once more.
Gary
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Yes, probably my imagination. On the 425 MB bucket that I have it still seems faster than before, maybe I drained larger amounts in the past therefore longer rebuild times.
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Maybe there's two of us then with the same hallucination - we're now on the road for the summer and it certainly appears we are getting refilled at a faster rate.
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The refill rate should not continue during FAP-free. You should see 1/19th of your daily per hour otherwise.
I shared my connection the other day and was quickly down to 99MB as someone apparently hadn't updated their computer for awhile. I shut the access point off, and the connection was unused after that (I was using my aircard). Refill was spot-on the 22MB/hour rate when checked several hours later.
So, if some are getting faster it is not everybody.
I don't trust subjective results. It is certainly easy to actually test when you can easily see what's happening with hnFAPalert.
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One thing that has changed in the HughesNet world is they are now rolling over your daily limt.
So for instance you can use what you didn't use yesterday with todays. In theory if you have 425MB and you didn't use it. You can use 850MB.
That is how it is on commercial and Residental Plans. I don't know for sure on the mobile.
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I don't think mobile has anything to do with it, it is modem based. All 9xxx modem users have the "bank" as Hughes calls the rollover. Only a small number of 7000 users, all on satellite 91, have reported having the bank. Doesn't matter whether they are mobile or home users of the 7000.
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Gentlemen, I don't want to appear contrary, but I've been blessed with the ability to empirically sense timing relationships rather well. That said, as this body/brain concoction ages I am always on the lookout for exceptions to this phenomenon. Neurons do malfunction at an ever increasing rate these years.
That said, we left the coach today at 1141 PDT and hnFAP reported 295 MB. We returned at 1653 PDT and hnFAP reported 413 MB. As usual my laptop was on, no windows were open, and I do not allow ANY automatic updates on any programs.
My calculator tells me that is a refill of 118 MB in 4.2 hours, which equals 28.1 MB/hour refill rate. Granted, it is only 21.7% faster than 22 MB/hour but it is perceptually faster. Akin to the perception of faster download speeds even though some proponents of TestMy.net now question it's accuracy.
I agree with Don, "I don't trust subjective results" either. So I'm not presenting them, though I experience them frequently on various networks.
My point is I really feel HughesNet has made many more changes to various algorithms than we can imagine. Changes that are not necessarily the same across all their birds. And only they know why.
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I would like to disagree, but what purpose would that serve? You sound really happy with your results and it just doesn't get any better than that. Maybe Hughes changed something. Maybe they did not. The only thing that's important is that you are happy.
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Yes, I am overall happy with Hughes' changes. For the first time since I bought into this technology I feel I'm getting value for money spent instead of aggravation.
Will it last? Who knows! Hopefully it will. But then again if you believe some of the pundits, we only have 6 months left to enjoy it. So I need to go and enjoy.
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