timing downloads late at night

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Hughesnet will cut my speed from 900 kps to 9kps if I down load too much
stuff during peak hours.. How can I be sure all downloads are down between 4
and 6 am EST?
 
Don't download stuff at other times.

I didn't know that 900 kps service was still available, since that was
the typical speed in the early 1970's. Are you still using an acoustic
coupler?
 
Leonard Grey said:
Don't download stuff at other times.

I didn't know that 900 kps service was still available, since that was
the typical speed in the early 1970's. Are you still using an acoustic
coupler?
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Nice HS latin..You obviously have NOTHING to do ALL day than answer E-mails when you don't have an answer...We get 1mb and live in West Texas where people have more to do then send non-answers.. hope all is well in new yoik...
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Leonard said:
Don't download stuff at other times.

I didn't know that 900 kps service was still available, since that was
the typical speed in the early 1970's. Are you still using an acoustic
coupler?
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Satellite service isn't great for bandwidth. See their plans at:

http://go.gethughesnet.com/plans.cfm

The OP is probably on the "Home" plan. Just look at their super-high
prices for what low bandwidth they give you. Their highest speed plan
is a third the speed of my cable broadband and at 5 times the cost.
Could be satellite is the only option out on the farm (i.e., no cable,
too far for DSL). Being that far out means we don't hear them screaming
when the vise is closed on their genitals.

The OP should start Googling for a download manager (with scheduling
features).
 
prahatx wrote:

(after unjumbling the mess that prahatx created in his/her reply)
Nice HS latin..
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You saw Latin (the language, not the characters) in his post?
You obviously have NOTHING to do ALL day than answer E-mails when you don't have an answer
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How do you know anything what e-mails he receives or sends? This is a
newsgroup. Nothing to do with e-mails.
We get 1mb and live in West Texas where people have more to do then send non-answers
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"It hurts when I jump off a cliff."
"Stop jumping off the cliff."

You gave no direction as to what type of solution you were looking for.
Just because a response is highly obvious doesn't disqualify it.

http://www.hughes.com/HUGHES/Rooms/...Entity[OID[BD8BE0839F414B4FB7CDDCA10EFA5369]]

You might want to do your binary porn newsgroup downloads at night, or
use a newsreader that can poll those binary newsgroups at a scheduled
time (and possibly start using filters to select which posts to download
instead of grabbing every post in every subscribed newsgroup). Or stop
watching those "blue movies" from web sites, or stop using Hulu.com as a
substitute for paying for dish TV. Tell the boobs that are using e-mail
to send huge files to put the files in online storage and provide a URL
link to it so YOU, as the recipient, can decide whether or not you will
retrieve that huge file. If they don't change their ways, configure
your e-mail client to NOT download e-mails that exceed a maximum size,
like 50KB.

After all, that Home plan that is as expensive as cable broadband but a
only a fifth the speed comes with a meager 200MB daily bandwidth quota.
Satellite Internet always sucks for speed and quotas. A poor choice,
and perhaps the only one, but still better than dial-up.
hope all is well in new yoik...
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Wouldn't that would be pronounced Neh Yolk?
 
Since the OP is getting SCREWED on bandwidth and pricing, I did a little
googling for him. He might want to look into this. http://getright.com/

If the program does what it says it does, it should be just what the OP
needs.
 
For those who are <ahem> younger than me: An acoustic coupler was a
forerunner of the modem. It used a regular telephone. You put the
handset into a specially designed cradle, and a series of beeps and bops
transferred data between computers.

If I lived in a place without broadband I would look for service from my
wireless (cell phone) company. Today's 3G networks can do up to about 2
Mbps, real-world. (Next year's 4G networks will do better.) Wireless 3G
is more expensive than wired broadband, and there are monthly download
caps, but it's still better than satellite service.

If I lived in a place without broadband and without cell phones...well,
everyone lives with their choices.
 
Leonard Grey said:
For those who are <ahem> younger than me: An acoustic coupler was a
forerunner of the modem. It used a regular telephone. You put the handset
into a specially designed cradle, and a series of beeps and bops
transferred data between computers.
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Oh yeah, kicking ass at 1200 Bd!! First communications job I had, we used a
coupler to transmit data from our stores in Baltimore to our headquarters in
Detroit. Punched out a tape first, then called Detroit and ran the tape
back. One hitch in the tape, or dropped connection- start all over. I do NOT
miss those days!

SC Tom
 
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