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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug