HughesNet & Sandvine (traffic shaping)

Sandvine lists DirecTV as a customer on the website. One can reasonably conclude that HughesNet also uses Sandvine to enforce its FAP ("Fair Access Policy" aka imposing traffic caps on the user).




Wiki has a writeup on Sandvine.

"....Controversy

Sandvine is reportedly used by Comcast to reduce the impact of BitTorrent and other P2P traffic, but does so by sending forged RST packets rather than traffic shaping. This interferes with other network protocols, and potentially violates network neutrality as well as fraud laws on the part of the ISP. Recently, Comcast customers have also reported an inability to use Google because forged RST packets are also interfering with HTTP access to google.com [2], which has further angered users.[3]..."