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Re: Anyone else thinking WildBlue? said by Piggie:The way I understand Wildbull's FAP. If you hit FAP then you are FAPed until you refill 20% of your monthly bucket. If you figure they have a flat refill rate (which I have no idea how it works), then that would take 20% of the days of one month to come out of FAP. I have never asked a WB users, just reading their site and trying to figure it out. If that is true they one would be FAPed for about 6 days? Can that be true? No flat refill rate. You are credited back what you downloaded 30 days ago and nothing more. If you downloaded 1mb you get 1mb back. If you downloaded 10gb you get 10gb back.
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 PiggieI Actually use WindstreamPremium
join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL
1 edit | Ok, so if you FAP , how long are you now FAPed on their relatively new rolling monthly FAP?
That doesn't mean if you didn't download anything exactly one month ago, then you have to wait longer to get out of FAP? |
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1 edit | Ok let's say you downloaded 17 gigs all in one day and got FAPped. You will be throttled for 30 days until that 17 gigs rolls off. Basically you will stay FAPped until you drop back below 80%.
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PiggieI Actually use WindstreamPremium
join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL | So that means if you downloaded 17G/30days or 567 Megs a day, everyday exactly, then you would just FAP toward the end of the month. Or lets say you download an extra 5 megs every day to be sure you FAP before 30 days passes.
Then would it then take 6 days to get out of the FAP to get back to below 80% ??
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| I think it goes if you download 10GB at day 1, by day 31 (rolling 30 days remember?) you get 10GB back in your bucket. Straight up, no trickle. |
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| said by corvettez06u:I think it goes if you download 10GB at day 1, by day 31 (rolling 30 days remember?) you get 10GB back in your bucket. Straight up, no trickle. Exactly how it works. On Jan 1st if you download 100mb, on Jan 30th you get back that 100mb.
Wildblue's FAP and bandwidth capacity are it's bright shining stars. I've never seen a speed test below 450kbps on my 512kbps plan. If only they'd give us sub 1-second latency. 
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| The point is that Wild Blue's FAP is usable and flexible for respectful users.
Large downloads can be undertaken to fit YOUR schedule, not Hughes'.
Reasonable management can easily avoid being FAPped for everyone except those with insatiable appetites who are trying to milk every last drop from the system. This means the penalty is a lot less of a concern.
Hughes new FAP is annoying and inconvenient. It causes you to re-shape your life around downloads. Their limit is now unworkably low for many of us. Their refusal to cleanly and openly communicate rubs salt into the wound.
Wild Blue is now miles ahead for responsible users. |
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| Hindsight is 20/20 but when I bought my system I figured to go with who was in the business the longest. You'd think 10 years the company would have grown invested in better technology increased throughput for everybody maybe kept with internet trends. Boy was I wrong it's sad that we even have a fap bucket in this day in age on any service.
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| If HughesNet was smart they'd add an option for 10 or 20 bucks added a month to your bill to allow you to have monthly allowance of FAP and not daily. |
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| reply to mrpepsi
Also, WB claims post-FAP speeds of 128 down / 28 up, so you can still use the internet moderately while coming out of it. WB also emails you when you exceed 80% of your FAP, so you do get some warning, and can take appropriate action.
I wish HN would adopt the rolling 30 day, it would fit my internet usage patterns much better than HN's..........
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