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Parents got a 4k tv on it, and it can spike upto 50gigs on a weekend day when they are watching tv all day. Not hitting 1TB a month, but with a full house its g

Parents got a 4k tv on it, and it can spike upto 50gigs on a weekend day when they are watching tv all day. Not hitting 1TB a month, but with a full house its getting close. Told them if they do any updates for the pc's do it after 11, and change the tv to 1080p if possible on streaming apps.

dannyw 4y ago
Fair use policies are fine when it's fair, but 1TB for a household's home internet is not fair in 2022. 2.5TB or 5TB being the threshold would be received much better.
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- indigodaddy 4y ago
  100% agree. I’d reckon we tear through 1TB in about 10 days.
- argiopetech 4y ago
  This is satellite, i.e., internet for people who can't get a physical network connection better than dial-up over copper. Starlink's closest competition is Exede (by Viasat) with monthly data caps on the order of 60GB. If you use 1TB+/mo, you're probably not viewing Starlink as an upgrade from Exede and should opt for something closer to your needs. I'd hazard a guess that people who should be using their local cable provider's solution are the reason Starlink is now imposing this data cap... edit: Exede apparently now offers up to 30mbps and a 100GB/mo cap in my area, their second highest plan. Other points still stand...
- KMnO4 4y ago
  I currently have satellite with Xplornet and pay $99/mo for a 50gb cap. For the target demographic, 1TB is more than fair.
twawaaay 4y ago
This is "satellite" Internet. It is absolutely bonkers amazing you can get 1TB at all.
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  Yeah, that seems to be lost on people here. Starlink has given me amazing internet on a tiny beach in Mexico. Before it, my internet was so bad I couldn’t do Zoom calls.
  - twawaaay 4y ago
    People kinda forget that before Starlink we had... Iridium. Which cost an arm and a leg for Internet speeds that my kids would call "Dad, why isn't Internet working?" It was just about enough to get in touch with the rest of the world when in some silly places far away from civilisation. When you need one you need one. People never stop to be amazed even for a second for the amazing things we have nowadays and how cheap.
dopa42365 4y ago
At 20 mbit/s (usual bitrate for 4k tv channels, as well as netflix, prime, apple+ etc. premium vods) that's 9GB per hour, so you'd reach a 1TB monthly cap by watching for like 4 hours a day on a single device.
- fijiaarone 4y ago
  So, if you need to watch more than 4 hours of TV a day, get cable, or pay more than $110/month.
  - duskwuff 4y ago
    Or turn the quality down from 4k. Frankly, the fact that you can stream 4k video for four hours a day, every day, on a satellite connection is pretty nuts.

dannyw 4y ago

Fair use policies are fine when it's fair, but 1TB for a household's home internet is not fair in 2022. 2.5TB or 5TB being the threshold would be received much better.

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indigodaddy 4y ago
100% agree. I’d reckon we tear through 1TB in about 10 days.
argiopetech 4y ago
This is satellite, i.e., internet for people who can't get a physical network connection better than dial-up over copper. Starlink's closest competition is Exede (by Viasat) with monthly data caps on the order of 60GB. If you use 1TB+/mo, you're probably not viewing Starlink as an upgrade from Exede and should opt for something closer to your needs. I'd hazard a guess that people who should be using their local cable provider's solution are the reason Starlink is now imposing this data cap... edit: Exede apparently now offers up to 30mbps and a 100GB/mo cap in my area, their second highest plan. Other points still stand...
KMnO4 4y ago
I currently have satellite with Xplornet and pay $99/mo for a 50gb cap. For the target demographic, 1TB is more than fair.

twawaaay 4y ago

This is "satellite" Internet. It is absolutely bonkers amazing you can get 1TB at all.

hombre_fatal 4y ago
Yeah, that seems to be lost on people here. Starlink has given me amazing internet on a tiny beach in Mexico. Before it, my internet was so bad I couldn’t do Zoom calls.
- twawaaay 4y ago
  People kinda forget that before Starlink we had... Iridium. Which cost an arm and a leg for Internet speeds that my kids would call "Dad, why isn't Internet working?" It was just about enough to get in touch with the rest of the world when in some silly places far away from civilisation. When you need one you need one. People never stop to be amazed even for a second for the amazing things we have nowadays and how cheap.

dopa42365 4y ago

At 20 mbit/s (usual bitrate for 4k tv channels, as well as netflix, prime, apple+ etc. premium vods) that's 9GB per hour, so you'd reach a 1TB monthly cap by watching for like 4 hours a day on a single device.

fijiaarone 4y ago
So, if you need to watch more than 4 hours of TV a day, get cable, or pay more than $110/month.
- duskwuff 4y ago
  Or turn the quality down from 4k. Frankly, the fact that you can stream 4k video for four hours a day, every day, on a satellite connection is pretty nuts.