On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:05:21PM -0800, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> Does anyone on the list have any experience with this sort of thing.
>> I am going to see if I can get a hub on between the microcell and
>> the rest of the network and try to sniff where it is talking to, then see
>> if I
>> do a traceroute to see what manner of delays I see on the link.
>
> Typical internet is asymmetric - when somebody is watching a movie
> on netflix or surfing the web, they are receiving a firehose of
> bits and sending out a trickle of ACK packets.
>
> VOIP usage is symmetric, moderate bandwidth data streams in both
> directions.
>
> Satellites are also asymmetric - they have a limited number of
> transponders with limited bandwidth, which they will allocate to
> maximize overall customer retention, which means catering to the
> majority.  Which isn't thee and me.
>

Which points to another possibility. Maybe the dish has moved slightly
out of alignment.  Is your signal strength the same as it was before
Dec 15th?

Bill
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