Oh Crappy HughsNet

I've been told the info is in the welcome email you get. I've been a customer for so long I don't have that email anymore and it was probably totally different then.  Do you happen to have the welcome email?  If so, could you check to see what it says? 

Streaming is a crapshoot with satellite internet, because of latency (both the signal latency from satellite to Earth and from internet latency) and congestion (which has to do with how many people in your area are accessing the system at the same time). 

The system gets bogged down quickly when  people are all trying to do something data intensive like streaming.   And streaming does eat data.  You can change the resolution to use less data, and go with standard definition, which eats the least data, though it still will chomp through the data, but at a slightly slower rate.  I think it's about 300MB per hour. 

EDIT: I used the word "data"  a lot. I'm thinking a drinking game might be called for here. ;)