Yep, I have a friend who pays $150/month for 50mbit/s satellite with a 20G data cap. He makes heavy use of the unmetered time from 12am-4am though. And yea, I did some look ups before about this issue and it's ridiculous the cap structure some of these providers have, like this bit from Wild Blue:

> After exceeding either of the usage thresholds, which vary by service package, we may significantly slow and/or restrict your service, or certain uses of your service. Your full service will be restored when your data usage in the prior 30 days falls below 70% for both usage thresholds.

So, if you go over, then for the next 30 days you're throttled UNTIL your volume stays under 70% of your cap over a 30 day period... Like, how is it even legal to sell one thing, but punish for using more than 70% of it sometimes

They have sold 100k Porsches on to an information superhighway that has only room for 1000 at a time so they only let each one use it for a relatively short amount of time each month. i.e the do contention management over a month.

Most providers sell consumer broadband access based on headline speed because that's what the fixed line providers do.

When buying "professional" satellite broadband; users can buy un-contented at much lower speeds. A Ford Transit with a dedicated lane perhaps...