This is 2011. You can go to only a very few pages that do not have loads of graphics which require bandwidth. Third world countries now have FIOS and here we are in the most industrialized nation on earth held to such limits.For streaming audio or videos, I use my cell phone. Step up or get passed up, cellular phones enable service as a modem and many times it speeds past this service. Also I'd second the roll over of unused tokens. Hughesnet has been great, but technology has caught up and we seem to have been forgotten.

You guys need to seriously rethink the FAP. This is the year 2011 not 1999. We want to stream movies and play games without being hammered by FAP! We are paying MAJOR money per year and we get LIMITS on what we can and cannot do. OHHHH but wait!! The FAP is to help us....BULL!!! Hows come I can download to my hearts desire if I buy your stupid restore tokens? Its about the MONEY!!!! If I have a bag full of money at my disposal I can download ALL DAY!!! Its a money scam and the only way you can get away with it is because....(drumroll please...)...YOUR THE MONOPOLY! We have NO choice. P.S. don't reply to me with your garbage "We are currently reviewing..." just do something about it...actions speak louder than cheap facebook "we are sorry" >:(

I would like to see FAP removed as well. Everything used mega-bandwidth today and it is so easy to violate...even if you are not using YouTube, etc.

That said, I think it would be a good idea that if you violate the FAP and you are close to your 24hr refresh, the refresh should take place as planned. If I violate, say 5 minutes before the 24 hr refresh, the clock starts then. Sometimes I plan things close with schoolwork, etc. It is really frustrating when I have to use a token when I was going to refresh just before I violated.

Still, FAP should be removed or the numbers raised significantly. I don't want to watch Netflix(but it would be nice) but would like to watch the occasional music video or be able to watch my school on-line sessions without fear of having to pay an additional fee.

FYI, I had to withdraw from a 2 year course I was taking when the school went to video training and I couldn't use it due to FAP.

I'd like to see the complimentary restore token roll over (if unused), although actual bandwidth rollover would be better.

Robert, are you aware that the FAP algorithm worked like that for most of the DirecPC/Direcway/Hughes history? That it still works that way for the 7000 users?

We get 1/19th of our daily allowance for each hour of the day, excluding the 5 FAP-Free hours. It is very nice to know that, if you are getting a bit low, just stopping what you are doing for a couple of hours gets you enough of the "bucket" back to keep going.

A bit of history, but "in the old days" the time to refill was a mere 4 hours!

If you can't change the bandwidth then lower the prices to a reasonable rate. You pay more for hughesnet then you do for high speed cable and they allow unlimited downloading and watching of videos.

If kept, it needs to be doubled or tripled at the least. We are not getting what we paid for. Why should we be penalized for living in a rural area or just outside the line. I live only 1/2 mile away from cable modems. They don't even pay as half as much as I do and get 4 times as much downloads.

I apologize in advance for this giant wall of text.

I think as a baseline change, the FAP limits should be doubled or even tripled outright for all plans. The current FAP numbers seem to be based on Year 2000 levels of bandwidth consumption. As Chris mentioned, more and more websites are operating under the assumption that broadband is king. Flash and Images are everywhere, and while the caching that is done on HN's end of things help alleviate some of the issues, it's still too easy to burn up large chunks of bandwidth without file sharing or watching kitten videos. Software sizes have grown as well, Anti virus programs range from anywhere between 50-300 megabytes depending on whatever other bloat they have. And almost every program "phones home" for updates and other things.

I don't know the legalities or technical limitations of site specific bandwidth throttling, but a case could also be made for doing away with the FAP altogether and just limiting bandwidth used on sites like Youtube and Netflix to keep things somewhat fair. There was a study done either earlier this year or late last year that detailed which sites used up the most bandwidth, that's something to take a look at.

Putting in a Rollover type system could also be effective. Setting a top end cap number (like FAP Limit times 3 or 5 or 7 days) and allowing unused daily bandwidth to accumulate towards that number. If you use all of your rolled-over bandwidth, you go back down to your advertised plan FAP the next day and the system starts over. Having extra bandwidth available when you have time to sit down and use it and not feeling cheated that "Oh no, I didn't get to use my 200 or 400 megabytes for today". You'll still have the punishment for going over, but it rewards users who aren't frequently using the system, or have time to do so every day, with a bit of extra bandwidth when they do have time to sit down and use it.