anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Michael Hipp]

Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> dep wrote:
> 
>> quoth Jerry McBride:
>>
>> | Here in New Jersey, the deal without the bullshit is: about $600.00
>> | up front for the equipment and installation and $60.00 a month. For
>> | that you get 50k uploads and about 500k downloads via sattelite. The
>> | downloads are monitored and one you exceed a daily limit of 169Meg,
>> | you can be throttled back to almost 50k download also via their fair
>> | usage policy... The equipment, regardless what you are told by
>> | Hughes, is OS agnostic...
>>
>> this is useful to know. i presume it is fundamentally the same, on the 
>> user side of things, as a cable modem -- that one can run a router, 
>> internet appliance, whatever off of it, and that the setup under linux 
>> is fundamentally the same as a cable modem?
>>
> You may need to clarify what a download is defined as.  I am thinking it 
> is the total bytes sent to your computer from the web in a 24 hour 
> period.  I could not find a definitive statement on the web site.  When 
> I try to do research for a paper or some such, I can go through 200 MB 
> in a quick hurry because of all the images.  If you are willing to use 
> something like lynx, or spread research over a few days, you should be 
> fine.
> 
> (If I am downloading over HTTP, can the proxy server tell the difference 
> between that and a web page?)

The Hughes FAP is based on total bytes sent and received regardless of 
direction, protocol or proxy.

Michael