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For a while now I've been having trouble when I click on a thread or link or try to open a new tab off the a main 'classic' forum thread. It seems to take up to 5 minutes (or it seems like 5 minutes) or so for the new tab or link to come up. Is it just me? Sometimes I go into my ISP's control panel and reset the MBX (whatever that is) and sometimes disable the 'web acceleration' and reset the MBX again. Then sometimes the link shows up. Sometimes not, it just takes a while for things to load. Even the first page seems slow to load. I've deleted my cookies, deleted my history and bookmarks, etc, nothing seems to do the trick. It may have to do with my satellite ISP and the 1 second latency issue, but was wondering if anyone else had this problem? It's been like this since the forum layout changed a while ago. I really didn't see anywhere else to post this.
 
Is your software/firmware up to date? Do you have too many programs loading upon start-up? Is your hard drive over 60% saturated? Satellite connections are more prone to slow down with increased demand than wired com. I have a fiber optic connection to my broadband router, but when other people on the the last-mile are using bandwidth my performance noticeably degrades. Most of the time I can get 100 up and down, but have seen as little as 10/15, ping time is generally under 10 ms, but I have seen as much as 20 ms. I have the option to buy greater speed, but like the price/performance I have.

Have you tried DSL?

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For a while now I've been having trouble when I click on a thread or link or try to open a new tab off the a main 'classic' forum thread. It seems to take up to 5 minutes (or it seems like 5 minutes) or so for the new tab or link to come up. Is it just me? Sometimes I go into my ISP's control panel and reset the MBX (whatever that is) and sometimes disable the 'web acceleration' and reset the MBX again. Then sometimes the link shows up. Sometimes not, it just takes a while for things to load. Even the first page seems slow to load. I've deleted my cookies, deleted my history and bookmarks, etc, nothing seems to do the trick. It may have to do with my satellite ISP and the 1 second latency issue, but was wondering if anyone else had this problem? It's been like this since the forum layout changed a while ago. I really didn't see anywhere else to post this.
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Good old American internet providers. The US is 24th in the world for internet performance. We do lead the world in pay for internet provider executives, though.
 
You're right about that, the US providers that is. Verizon is installing a new tower less than a mile away and this satellite stuff will be toast. I just this morning notice that my bookmark to the Classic forum comes right up, then when I click on a thread, it takes forever for it to load so I open another tab to go back to the classic page while waiting for the link to load and it now too takes forever. It must be my ISP doing this. No other site is like this.

There is no DSL much less cable where I am. We can't even get cell service in the house and it's maybe 1 bar outside. Everything's up to date, hard drive is less than 1/4 used, I've locked virtual memory to 8GB so there's no fragmentation. Time of day doesn't matter although my speeds vary from 1-2MB/s in the mornings down to 100's of KB in the evenings. Sundays are worst. There is recently WiFi available, but I'm not going to go to it since Verizon is coming in soon. Less than a mile away I should have full service with LTE. That will be a change.
 
Satellite internet has a huge lag built into it, even worse if there are lost packets. I stopped using it as soon as an alternative showed up. I am now using LTE/4G, 50mb download 40mb upload from a mast 4km away and 50m/s pings, our BT landline is dropped and use VOIP instead and retain the old landline number.

To get the best from LTE you need an external antenna plus a good router CAT6 minimum as long as the mast supports CAT6.
 
I measure latency with our sat at about 1s. It does screw with some sites. I would be able to see the new tower from the front of out house if it weren't for the trees. I doubt if it's a half mile away. Can't wait. I did try building a large 17 element yagi antenna for Band 12 which is the best LTE signal I get, but it didn't work any better than standing outside with the phone. We have a lot of fairly high mountains nearby and all the towers are along I66 which is over another Mt.
 
I tried Yagi, a dual array as the router needs it for carrier aggregation or doubling bandwidth. That did not work in fog or rain so I went parabolic antenna, that is rock solid regardless of weather. It's just a satellite dish with a 4g receiver where the LNB would go.
 
I get slow page loading on the forum semi regularly, when other sites load more quickly. I find restarting the modem usually fixes it. My guess is that it is a caching issue.
 
No doubt a parabolic would be the cat's meow but I haven't got a spare one laying around. Where did you get your 4G RX and it feeds a router for a sort of wifi hot spot? Or how does it work, not like a repeater I take it, they tend to be problematical. I could easily make a corner reflector at my distance no doubt, they have pretty good gain and very good f/b.
I timed this thread off the main page and it took 40s to load.
 
I have a setup that is optimised for the Three UK mast closest to me, they transmit on band 3 and band 20 so my Huawei 525 router covers both these bands and joins them together for Carrier Aggregation or bandwidth sharing, this increases my download speeds. In the UK the local mast setups are hidden as they do not want their competitors to know. So you first have to test with a phone and an app that shows how the phone connects and also ask other users on UK 4g modem forums to find out what is expected.

So your first port of call will be your phone with the right app and other users before commiting to a router.

A site like this would be a good place to start.

https://b3n.org/verizon-4g-lte-rural-internet/

and a forum

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30047598-Equipment-Seek-Best-Rural-LTE-Antenna-Modem-Setup

At less than a mile compared to my 4km then your old Yagi should work fine, but most modern 4G modems now use 2 antenna set 90 degrees to each other in the UK, Really depends on the mast and what technology it has and a rural one will not have all the setup an urban one has.

My B525 has the firmware for Bridge mode, so it passes the Three assigned IP address to my Draytek router and so acts dumb and everything passes through, no DHCP, NAT or firewall as the Draytek does all that. Not all routers have a bridge mode and with Huawei the firmware can have it missing, so you have to make sure the seller has checked and confirmed.

If you need a static IP then check what Verzion do, only Three in the UK give you a semi static IP, the rest use shared IP's so you cannot access your network externally eg to check CCTV.
 
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That's some good info kommando, but I doubt we'll need anything that involved or expensive. Right now we get along with 20GB/mo and rarely ever use it up unless the wife forgets and leaves tabs open with videos running. It would be nice to stream netflix, but I have no problem getting DVD's by mail. But that may go away at some point, I hope not. I'm more interested in reliability and solid better data speeds, but not heavy use.
When I started on this project, I tried about 4 different apps to try to find out where cell sites are (AT$T). The nearest ones were over mountains and not available. I'm still not sure where the tower is we get the little coverage we do get. and finding cell sites ruraly is nearly impossible. I even tried the FCC site and that was a disaster, plus the providers don't really want you knowing where they are. There are actually no cell sites visible anywhere within probably 10 miles from me. So I made this long yagi, I do have an antenna analyzer and spectrum analyzer good to 1GHz got it tuned up, but really couldn't find anything with it even putting it on the best side of the house. I didn't try too high and I've about given up at this point and am just going to wait for the Verizon site to come on line and switch providers, and get rid of this satellite crap.
 
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