Only Free users are imposed a bandwidth-usage limit. If you are a paid Premium subscriber, you have unlimited bandwidth.
Please purchase an Premium subscription for unlimited bandwidth.
Bandwidth-usage limit for Free users
Hotspot Shield's Free Edition is ad-supported and this helps to cover the costs to run the service. However, some content, such as video from streaming sites, use a large amount of bandwidth and increase server costs.
To keep our Free services running, we implemented the following bandwidth limitation on mobile and desktop platforms:
- Bandwidth/Data Cap on Android and Mac is 500MB per day and resets every 24hrs.
- Bandwidth/Data Cap on Desktop is set to 500MB per day and reset every 24hrs.
When the bandwidth limit is reached, Free users are prompted to pay or wait for a specified amount of hours until the cap is reset.