Exede now offers an unlimited download time period

Posted on: Monday, 2012.08.27 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Off the Grid, tech tips, Work,

Exciting news for satellite internet users! From 12 midnight to 5AM, local to your installation time zone, you can download an unlimited amount without it affecting your monthly bandwidth quota. Woot! Late Night Free Zone: free downloads and uploads every night from 12 midnight – 5 a.m. local to your time zonehttp://www.exede.com/exede-customers/late-night-free-zoneEvery night during the [...]

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Differences between original WildBlue FAP & Broadband (Exede) FAP

Posted on: Thursday, 2012.06.28 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, Off the Grid,

The orignal WildBlue services uses a rather unusual ‘rolling FAP’ that is pretty hard to explain. The new WildBlue broadband (Exede) uses a much simpler monthly usage reset date. Here are the policies for both old and new WildBlueas of 2012.06.28 followed by an explanation and example where appropriate. -JD Original or ‘old’ WildBlue Plans WildBlue [...]

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HughesNet Download Bank

Posted on: Tuesday, 2012.02.07 by J.D. H. in in Daily Updates, Misc Links, Off the Grid,

We have HughesNet satellite internet and the ‘download bank’ has been a feature since we signed up last month. Apparently HughesNet is doing a wider rollout  now, as this is the email I received from them today: Dear HughesNet Member, We’re rolling out a brand-new feature—the Download Bank―enabling you to save any unused portion of your [...]

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Can I use the HughesNet Download Zone if I exceeded the FAP limit? [yes!]

Posted on: Saturday, 2012.01.28 by J.D. H. in in computer tips, tech tips,

The Download Zone One of the best things about HughesNet satellite internet is that every night from 2AM to 7AM EST they have unlimited downloading. HugesNet calls this the “Download Zone” and any downloading you do during that time will NOT count against your “download allowance” as specified in the fair access policy (FAP). But [...]

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Initial HughesNet HN9000 satellite internet speed test

Posted on: Saturday, 2012.01.21 by J.D. H. in in Daily Updates,

Our new HughesNet install was completed on Thursday morning. We started with the Express 200 plan and  were very pleased with it. Today we called to have our plan upgraded to the Express 300 and it is even better Here are some speedtest results* *these results were done on an Android smartphone over a 1/2 [...]

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