-=PCTechTalk=- Re: high speed internet
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:09:37 -0400
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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