Acceptable Usage Policy. It's like an FAP or Fair Usage Policy (like found on all of the US Satellite companies). What they are is mainly a set of guidelines telling what the service can be used for, and things like caps. Pretty much, it's the TOS.
It is a bit slower. You're probably noticing the speed from the way Firefox caches stuff and you probably have a fast computer to tie in. The last I tried both the latest release of Firefox 2 versus Internet Explorer 7 on an older computer in my basement (1.8GHz Celeron, slower than it really...
You get your time but your internet gets really slow due to packet loss.
I wish that because I'm in the Northern Hemisphere (notice my ISP, Verizon is a US based company? :D) that I could start vacation now as summer's less than a month away.
I use n00b tactics by landing a remote controlled F22 Raptor in front of verbsite and dropping a bomb from it while landed. Battlefield 2 style, verbsite goes flying away from the hill, bounces around, then ends up in space. I claim the hill.
I use a n00b tactic to land a remote controlled F22 Raptor in front of Verbsite, and while it's landed and he tries to get in it, I drop a bomb and blow the plane and verbsite up :P.
I have to download it 9 times! 6 for my computers here, two for a family relative's computer, and another computer which I maintain. There's also a few more computers I may do, bring it up to 15 maybe.