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The problem was that Voyager sent junk data back to us due to a memory fault. It was still responsive to receive updates from Earth and to pings.
Pinging Voyager 1 takes about 2 days, so testing updates is naturally quite slow.
Not only round trip time, the hardware only supports bandwidth of 160bps at this range. Down from the 21.6kbps at launch.