We have Hughes satellite. We have down loaded files then experienced extremely slow service. That’s because our down load exceeded Hughes “Fair Use Policy”. You can only down load so many megabytes in a 24 hour period, or you experience a loss of service. We did not know about this policy when we signed up - and do not have access to any other type of internet (VERY rural and mountainous).
Our limit is 200 meg in a 24 hour period. 10 meg shouldn’t shut you down, but if there are windows updates downloading at the same time - or, like when we were using an unsecured wireless network and a weekend neighbor tried to down load a movie off of our signal, it could kick you into the red zone. Don’t know if that’s the problem, but it sure sounds like it.
There the link on the satellite control panel that tells you if you exceeded your limit. Hughes may have changed their policy, but they don’t come right out and tell you about the limit up front.
200MB in 24 hours is ridiculous. You couldn’t even download 25 songs from the iTunes store a day if you wanted to with that kind of limit.