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Originally Posted by Fremen
How is it compared to dialup, though?
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Browsing and downloading are much much faster. Uploading is faster as well but not nearly as fast as downloading, still better than dialup.
My biggest complaint is something they call FAP (fair access policy). After downloading about 180 MB in less than an hour or so, they throttle your speed way back for a few hours. You can still browse fast during this time but can't download any large files at high speed for a while. As I understand it most satellite companies have similar policies. Something to do with the nature of these systems.
Still, I could never go back to dialup.