-=PCTechTalk=- Re: high speed internet

FAP stands for Fair Access Policy and it is a mandate used by most, if not 
all, satellite internet companies to limit just how much you can 
download/upload using their service.  In our case, we were paying for the 
top tier service which supposedly gave us a 1.5 mB/s connection.  Taking the 
lag associated with satellite service, it was actually much lower than that. 
The FAP limit that goes along with that level of service is 17,000mB/any 
rolling 30 day period.  So, if you were to download 17,000 mB/30 day, your 
violation would result in them cutting the connection down to a little over 
dial-up speed until the 30 day total dropped below 70% of the limit (which 
is 11,000).  Once exceeded, it took us about 3 weeks to drop down to that 
point, according to their counter.

Peace,
Gman

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: high speed internet


> What is an FAP violation and FAP limit?
> Sandi 


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