H2OLitespeed and Astra2Connect - Same system, different service level
Astra2Connect and H2Olitespeed are two services based on the same technology yet offering different levels of service. As Astra2Connect was developed mainly for home/private use the Maritime version of Astra2Connect is providing mariners with higher service levels and contention ratios than the land solution.
With ASTRA2Connect, each month you can*:
Browse +25.000 web pages or
Send & receive +150.000 emails or
Listen to +1.000 songs on Last.fm or
Watch +100 videos on YouTube
*Figures based on 1024/128 Kbit/s connection package and average sizes for each element: 200Kbytes for a web page, 11KB for an email, 3MB for an MP3 song of approximately 3 minutes at 128 Kbits/s and 30MB for an average video on Youtube.
Fair Use Policy
ASTRA2Connect is an always-on, flat-rate satellite broadband Internet access service, designed to deliver the best possible user experience and quality of service to all users in a fair and equitable manner. To prevent bandwidth abuses, ASTRA2Connect operates a Fair Use Policy that can temporarily limit the speed of connection under extreme heavy use conditions only.
The Fair Use Policy is a means to monitor and control ASTRA2Connect network resources to give all users fair access to those resources. As is the case with all broadband services, the users of ASTRA2Connect share the available system capacity that connects them to the Internet, and the Fair Use Policy ensures that this capacity is not used disproportionately.
How it works
During periods of peak use, when there is the greatest number of users of the system and high contention for network resources, the Fair Use Policy restricts the available connection speed of users identified as having made disproportionate use of network resources, in favour of other users.
Users with a disproportionate usage profile are identified by monitoring each user’s total download and upload volume throughout each month. At the start of each month, the monitored volume totals are reset to zero, and all users start with a ‘clean slate’ - an equal usage profile and equal access to the network.
The Fair Use Policy can restrict only the speed of access; it does not limit the time connected to the Internet through ASTRA2Connect or the overall download/upload volume of any user.