Satellite Internet Speed

[Endersmens]

I have Hughes net satellite internet. Usually the speed is decent, downloading at speeds around 1 mB per second. But it drops sometimes. Like right now. Its at 8000 B/s. How? How can it drop that much randomly?

[cantab]

Ouch, that's bad.

You'd be best off asking your provider. But possible causes include congestion since the satellite has limited total bandwidth, weather or other interference with the signal, the satellite being in conjunction with the Sun (which is a special case of interference) or otherwise poorly placed (if it's a non-stationary system)

[Samniss Arandeen]

Satellite Internet eh? How's the lag sucker?

[Kinglet]

Ouch, that's bad.

You'd be best off asking your provider. But possible causes include congestion since the satellite has limited total bandwidth, weather or other interference with the signal, the satellite being in conjunction with the Sun (which is a special case of interference) or otherwise poorly placed (if it's a non-stationary system)

It's not that bad. I once had 0.2 Mbps download internet.

[cantab]

The normal speed the OP gets is tolerable, but the dips of 8000 bytes (or bits, it doesn't really matter) per second is indeed that bad.

Slowest internet I used in recent times was when I tethered my old GPRS phone to my PC because the broadband went down. Speed was about the same as dial-up.

[lajoswinkler]

One millibyte per second? Poor guy.