JoeMan
Just for reference, there is no "free month" with HughesNet.
With this said, during your first twenty days of service your monthly data allotment is reset on a continual basis. This is done as a courtesy, in order to allow new customers to update/upgrade their devices to current, which can use a lot of data if said devices haven't been connected in a while. Once the initial twenty days are over the data resets stop and data usage starts being tallied like normal, which means that the monthly data allotment would only need to last for the remaining ten or eleven days of that data month. This is probably why you had no issues during that first month, whereas the during following month(s) you probably ran out of data and your speed was throttled.
If you end up remaining with HughesNet, many of us would be happy to help you figure out what it is that is using all of your data, even if that happens to be the XBox. As well, we'd be happy to help you change your device settings and choose which programs/apps to use in order to help you save data. I don't have an XBox, but other than last month, in which I started using PlayOn Cloud and went a little nuts with downloading, I've never run out of data with my 20GB plan. This is with keeping two W10 Pro PCs, one W8.1 PC, and one Android phone up to date. I browse, shop, pay bills, use social media (Facebook and Twitter) and occasionally watch Youtube videos. Again, I don't have an XBox, and it's very possible that if I did my data would not last. Again, though, if you do stay and you would like that help, feel free to ask. :)
