Tariff plans for Astra-5A

Internet services via Astra-5A are provided according to the following tariff plans: Prepaid, Business, Leecher, Surfer, Unlimited/CIR.

Attention! Available speed for all Astra 5A tariff plans except Leecher plans is doubled for the period from 1st of September 2008 to 30th of November 2008.

«Prepaid»

Prepaid is the best for users desiring to pay for the limited amount of traffic received with the guaranteed bandwidth. Prepaid users have a possibility to considerably economize while receiving the data in different day times.

Per 1 Gb, time — GMT+2.

Connection types:
— Dynamic (connection by sessions) - PPTP VPN, OpenVPN and through the Slonax internet accelerator. For VPN connections static IP address can be provided for additional charge.
— Static (permanent connection) - static connection on the SatGate IP subnet provided without the use of tunnels and a tunnel connection* (IP-IP, GRE, PPP-SSH). IP addresses from the SatGate block can be provided for the additional charge.
$10 fixed IP payment is deducted on 6-month basis.

Account is activated at the moment the funds reach user's account.
Validity period: while there is a positive balance on a Subscriber’s Personal Account. If there is no activity during 180 days, the statistics is deleted, the account is blocked and no claims are considered.
Amount of the minimum advanced payment: 20 USD.
Free access to the SatGate Satellite Internet accelerator Slonax is allowed for all connection types.

«Business»

«Business» is the best for the Providers needing a certain amount of traffic but for technical or economic reasons considering not to buy dedicated speed service (CIR flat-rate). «Business» is also suitable for backup channels organization.

Connection types:
— Dynamic (connection by sessions) - PPTP VPN, OpenVPN and through the Slonax internet accelerator. For VPN connections static IP address can be provided for additional charge.
— Static (permanent connection) - static connection on the SatGate IP subnet provided without the use of tunnels and a tunnel connection* (IP-IP, GRE, PPP-SSH). IP addresses from the SatGate block can be provided for the additional charge.
$10 fixed IP payment is deducted on 6-month basis.

An account is activated when money is placed to the user's balance. Once an account is activated, a fixed monthly fee is charged regardless of the traffic received by the user during the accounting month. One-time fee equal to 1/30 of monthly cost of chosen tariff plan will be deducted while switching to a tariff plan with flat-rate monthly fee.
Validity period: 30 days from activation.
Amount of the minimum advanced payment: 50 USD.
Free access to the SatGate Satellite Internet accelerator Slonax is allowed for all connection types.

«Leecher»

Leecher is the best for users needing service with guaranteed speed and a high upper velocity limit. It is oriented to the clients who need a rapid download of large data volumes. CIR (commited information rate) gives guarantees the possibility to download data at the speed at any moment of time and independently of the situation with the channels’ load.

Connection types:
— Dynamic (connection by sessions) - PPTP VPN, OpenVPN. For VPN connections static IP address can be provided for additional charge.
— Static (permanent connection) - static connection on the SatGate IP subnet provided without the use of tunnels and a tunnel connection* (IP-IP, GRE, PPP-SSH). IP addresses from the SatGate block can be provided for the additional charge.
$10 fixed IP payment is deducted on 6-month basis.

An account is activated when money is placed to the user's balance. Once an account is activated, a fixed monthly fee is charged regardless of the traffic received by the user during the accounting month. One-time fee equal to 1/30 of monthly cost of chosen tariff plan will be deducted while switching to a tariff plan with flat-rate monthly fee.
Validity period: 30 days from activation. In case there is no activity shown during the period of 180 days - statistics will be deleted, the Account will be blocked and no claims will be considered.
Amount of the minimum advanced payment: 20 USD.
Access to Slonax TCP Accelerator for Leecher plans is temporary suspended.

«Surfer»

Surfer is the best for users needing limited, not large amount of the traffic to receive and thus saving money from it. Surfer - cheap packet not providing the guaranteed speed option. “Surfer” is recommended for the users who need Internet for the Web surfing and participation in the interactive chats, communicate to other people using ICQ, MSN and the like.

Connection types:
— Dynamic (connection by sessions) - PPTP VPN, OpenVPN. For VPN connections static IP address can be provided for additional charge.
— Static (permanent connection) - static connection on the SatGate IP subnet provided without the use of tunnels and a tunnel connection* (IP-IP, GRE, PPP-SSH). IP addresses from the SatGate block can be provided for the additional charge.
$10 fixed IP payment is deducted on 6-month basis.

An account is activated when money is placed to the user's balance. Once an account is activated, a fixed monthly fee is charged regardless of the traffic received by the user during the accounting month. One-time fee equal to 1/30 of monthly cost of chosen tariff plan will be deducted while switching to a tariff plan with flat-rate monthly fee.
Validity period: 30 days from activation. In case there is no activity shown during the period of 180 days - statistics will be deleted, the Account will be blocked and no claims will be considered.
Amount of the minimum advanced payment: 20 USD.
Access to Slonax TCP Accelerator for Surfer plans is temporary suspended.

* Initial connection by tunnel is provided with no additional fee. After successful connection one time charge for each change of tunnel settings of $5 will be applied. The connection is to be treated as successful by customer's confirmation or if no complain to SatGate customer service from customer is received within 5 days from the day the E-Mail with tunnel settings to the customer has been sent.