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Capped data makes sense - brings those few people running endless torrents and the like into line. I can easily imagine a few customers making up a very substan
by Panzer04 4y ago
Capped data makes sense - brings those few people running endless torrents and the like into line. I can easily imagine a few customers making up a very substantial chunk of starlink’s usage that way, and given inherent service limitations that probably have to address it :/
- the_mitsuhiko 4y ago1TB is not a lot. Even my unlimited phone contract has a fair use clause for 5TB. My monthly home use for a 5 person household of which three are children is between 2 and 3TB from just streaming and home office.
- petra 4y agoLimit video to 720P and everything will be fine.
- the_mitsuhiko 4y agoI don’t think most devices in this household have even controls for this, let alone that family members would use that. Particularly the kids. Since we have gigabit speeds every app happily picks highest bitrate and resolution.
- bombcar 4y agoYoutube does, but I don't know if you can force it to stick. A "smart router" that slows down packets for video would be amusing, if not easy to setup.
- spockz 4y agoI suppose that would just be the opposite of QoS. If you have fixed addresses it should be relatively easy too throttle all traffic from those devices.
- Gigachad 4y ago720p video is unwatchable on a TV. There is a very sharp decline in quality fro 4k to 1080p but its tolerable. I would not want to watch 720p unless it was on a phone screen.
- sokoloff 4y agoUnwatchable? That seems somewhat hyperbolic. Mere 20 years ago, 720p was on the high end of typical content and perfectly watchable on wall-sized TVs and projection screens.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThough 20 years ago 720p wasn't the budget/data-saver edition. Today 720p is a mess of compression artifacts a lot of the time.
- kixiQu 4y ago> I would not want to watch 720p unless it was on a phone screen. This makes me feel very, very old. :)
- vardump 4y agoJust wait until you're 50.