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Broadband Satellite Internet: Throughput

As illustrated at right, each level of service has throughput levels of either 500 or 800 Megabytes.

You can think of these "throughput levels" as working like batteries, as they have a certain amount of download power in them. The recovery rate is the rate at which the "battery" is recharged. 

For example, a customer on the basic service has a throughput reserve of 500 MB. This "battery" is recharging 24x7 at the rate of 56Kbps but it cannot be charged past the point of being full (500MB).

As files are downloaded, they will download at approximately 400 kbps and this reduces the reserve amount. If the "battery" is fully emptied, the bandwidth speed will then be reduced to the recharge or recovery rate of 56kbps. The next morning the reserve will be full again and it all starts over. 

To put 500 MB of capacity into perspective, consider this. If you wanted to download what could be considered a huge computer software program (Adobe Photoshop, for instance), the evaluation copy from Adobe is 248 MB. That's above the consumer level FAP (169) but well below the FAP on business-level service.