[COLUG] Hughes net business class internet service

[Mark Erbaugh]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:09 -0400, charles morrison wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with Hughes Net business Internet.
> 
> Web site says 2 Mbyte rate download 500 KByte upload with 1.25 GByte 
> fair use limit over a 1-4 hour period.
> 
> I was wondering if they really enforce the fair use policy as stated, or 
> if they enforce it for lessor amounts of data?
> 
> I would hate to do a 15 month contract to find out I can't download a 
> Kubuntu CD without getting internet service for the rest of the month. 
> They supposedly back down to 150 Kbyte rate for 8-12 hours if fair use 
> policy is exceeded.
> 
> Any body know from experience or know some one I can speak with who has 
> experience?

I'm using their home service. I don't know the differences between home
and business. In their most recent newsletter, they announced a change
to the fair access policy. For home use, it used to be a limit of 175 MB
over an 8 hour period. The new policy will be a limit of 200 MB over a
24 hour period, with a 24 hour recovery policy.  My experience with the
one time I exceeded the FAP was that the crippled speed was more like 50
K (dial up speed).  I've resigned myself to not being able to download
any ISO images.

BTW, I think the change to the FAP is a material change to my contract
with them - under the old FAP, I could download about 425 MB a day
without triggering the limits, now only 200 MB, but I'm not sure what
luck I'd have fighting it.

Mark