05-21-2008, 03:13 AM
That 200mb a day is a hard and absolute limit...
Cross that line, and all of a sudden you have less-than-dial up speeds for 24 hours while you are punished for downloading that last bit of email, or youtube video, or whatever straw it was that crippled the camel with back pain...
You definitely want all automatic Software Updates turned OFF with Hughes.net.
It doesn't take much of an update, plus pretty routine browsing and email to push you over that 200mb limit to get into the "FAP" (Fair Access Policy, often used as a verb "I've been FAPped").
Cross that line, and all of a sudden you have less-than-dial up speeds for 24 hours while you are punished for downloading that last bit of email, or youtube video, or whatever straw it was that crippled the camel with back pain...
You definitely want all automatic Software Updates turned OFF with Hughes.net.
It doesn't take much of an update, plus pretty routine browsing and email to push you over that 200mb limit to get into the "FAP" (Fair Access Policy, often used as a verb "I've been FAPped").