<OT> How many Boxen?

[Michael Hipp]

Yes, you could do that. It wouldn't even have to be that extreme.
Usually if you stop using the link for a full "clock" hour the FAP will
go away. So you could probably do something like start the download at
:05 after, stop it at :55 and resume it an hour later at :05. But I'm
just guessing as I don't really know Hughes' FAP algorithm.

I wrote them some eloquent hatemail saying I thought it was the most
customer-hostile policy I'd ever seen from an ISP. They haven't written
back.


On Wed, 29 May 2002 19:58:13 -0600
Andrew Mathews <andrew_mathews at linux-works.org> wrote:

> Michael Hipp wrote:
[snip]
> > - Hughes has something called FAP. Fair Access Protocol. Except it
> > should be called Punitive Punishment Protocol. What it does is
> > throttle you if you use too much bandwidth in a given time. Like
> > when doing a 650M download of an iso of the latest version of
> > CalderaSuseTiva, I have to set GetRight to a "speed limit" of 10kB/s
> > or Hughes will FAP me. And the link essentially dies when FAP kicks
> > in. Even browsing stops working, for all intents.
> 
> That's the part I'd have real difficulty with. Throttle the bandwidth
> is one thing, to limit it to a 10k connection to download as ISO image
> 
> without incurring the wrath of God is too much. Or are there other
> ways that you know of such as scripting an ftp session to quit after
> an hour, wait 4, go for another hour with regatta, and on and on?
>