Hughesnet, I hate you but then I love you!

Satellite itnernet just plain sucks, there’s literally nothing good about it, until you realize its better than dialup.   Its bad enough that we have a 475mb download limit a day which I have to continuously monitor if I don’t want speeds like dialup.  But this is the single greatest thing about Hughesnet, after 2AM the speeds increase dramatically and anything downloaded between 2AM and 7AM doesn’t count against my daily bandwidth.

Here is a test done slightly before 2AM:

And After 2AM:

 

This test was done with pretty much the same open programs and tabs on my internet browser.