[ForSale-Swap] Re: Need help: "dish" internet system

[W2EC - Paul/Ray]

Most of the "dish" type internet providers have something called the FAP 
  (or Fair Access Policy) limit. What this means is that you are limited 
in the amount of data you can download within a certain timeframe. If 
you exceed this (by doing a lot of huge downloads, etc) they "throttle 
back" your connection speed to almost dialup speeds. The reason is so no 
one user or group of users can hog all the bandwidth which is far more 
limited on a sat-dish system than a ground based cable system.

Read the fine print of the contract and see if your provider has this 
limit. Also, you can usually go to your "account" section and see how 
much you've downloaded and if (and when) you got "FAPped" as they call it.

73, Ray  W2EC


 >Greetings all,
 >
 >If I could, I'd like to "pick the brains" of the collective group
 >concerning a
 >tech issue a friend of my son's in NE Oklahoma is having. He recently 
started
 >using a "dish" type system of some flavor for his internet service as he
 >lives in a rural area. His problem is that after a period of time (maybe a
 >few hours or less?) of being on line his service slows to (as he describes
 >it) almost dialup speed.