Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
 ·TDS
 ·WildBlue
| On wildblue there is no daily or weekly limit; there is a 30-day rolling total limit. Today, what you use today is added and what you used 30 days ago is subtracted. If you exceed the 30-day rolling FAP your speeds are slowed to dailup speeds and you don't want to do this.
Personally, I prefer the wildblue approach because it leaves me free to do what I want when I want it as long as I don't exceed the total. It also means that if I'm at work a lot a particular week or on vacation or for other reasons don't use the wildblue connection a lot, I get to use more bandwidth the week before or after, etc. with it "evening" out over a longer period of time.
The hughesnet FAP is more forgiving in that if kids or guests exceed your fap you only have to wait until the next day for it to recover, but it would really get in the way for me.
The skyway FAP is a bit more complex as outlined here: »How to upgrade Skyway account. and in other posts in this forum
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Very happy TDS DSL user | Wildblue in Lake Michigan |
