Is 300mb of internet access a day for 4 ppl on 4 computers enough?

i think them doing this crap is just so they can charge more and more money to your bill for something that you already paid for

Unfortunately, the world is just not ready for metered Internet access. If you have no other choices, other than dialup, well, you have no choice. Hughes is much better than dialup. But if you have any other choices, definitely take them.

Also, remember, you have 5 unmetered hours a day. So try to get in the habit of doing your large downloads during those 5 yours. You can also download "Firefox Throttle" to monitor your usage.

But unfortunately, it will always be a pain. There will always be times when all 4 of you will each need 100MB. And there's no really good way to even know what you're using.

I've seen idiotic MySpace pages that push an entire playlist of music to you when you click on them only to have me look at the ugly page and then click on something else. That's 24MB right there, just to look at an ugly MySpace page.

It's not Hughes' fault, it's the nature of satellite that the bandwidth is limited. And it's way better than dialup for casual use.

If you are technically savvy, there are partial workarounds to smooth some of these issues out. You can use a Squid cache with delay pools. This will keep you from all having to download the same file once each. And it can give you time to move off a crappy page *before* it transfers a huge amount of worthless junk.

Firefox Throttle can also show you your transfer rate, warning you that a page is transferring a whole bunch of junk that you don't know about.

But the world is just not built for it. Many programs and services simply assume that bandwidth is unlimited.

I had a security program once get a file in use error during a security sweep (I had the file up on another screen and went to sleep). So it tried the scan every 20 seconds for the next few hours. Each scan was preceded by a check to make sure its security information was current, which required downloading a 300KB 'master version file'. 300KB/20 seconds is 54MB/hour. When I checked the next day, 320MBs had transferred. I work from home, and a lot of my work is online, so the next day wasn't a very good day.

I guess the developers assumed bandwidth was free and the file would only be in use for a minute or so max. *sigh*

From personal experience, (I have HughesNet) I have to say, the max is annoying. I make and watch many tutorials on Visual Basic 2008. And the MB Max isn't a good thing. You'd definitely want to upgrade ASAP. That is, if you can. 4 Computers could take it up alone, due to automatic updates, and other things alike. All in all, I'd upgrade if you could.

It depends upon what you are using your internet connection for. If you have four people that just browse the news, or use facebook 300mb is probably fine. If you have even one user that frequently uses YouTube or Bittorrent you are going to use up 300mb fairly quickly

That's a pretty unfair policy they have and if that's true I would highly recommend switching Internet Service Providers.

Anyway, I'm assuming that's not an option so:

If you generally IM, Facebook, Myspace, etc, with occasional downloads you should be ok.

If you send/download files (especially video), video chat, or torrent you may have a problem.

no that's small honestly,

the average web page on the internet is 1-3mb each time you load that you just downloaded some info,

if you loaded 300 1mb websites (not hard to do) you just spent 300mb

if you can try to get 1000mb or higher that would help, (also dont be trying to play online games that would act like a suction hose of your monthly limit)

depends on how much you connect per day

and how you use the connection