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Remote work from my van requires video conferencing, easily more than 200 hours per month. 1 TB would limit me to 5 GB per hour. I have been doing much more th
by morphle 4y ago
Remote work from my van requires video conferencing, easily more than 200 hours per month. 1 TB would limit me to 5 GB per hour. I have been doing much more than that the last 5 months on Starlink.
I object to you calling that abuse. I certainly am not 'taking the piss' out of this service. I pay over 250 euro for Starlink (including 24/7 offgrid batteries and dish) so by suddenly limiting me to 1000 GB I now pay over 0,25 euro per GB.
I am in sparse regions where my satellites are not overtaxed (no cities nearby for 300 km).
If Starlink would equally trottle everyone in speed when the system is oversubscribed at peak times a day I would not mind as much, but a data cap throttles/limits me much more. And now I also have to start counting my traffic and set alarms (waking me up) to voluntairily limit my data.
- iforgotpassword 4y ago5GB/hr sounds more than enough for video conferencing!? Does your job require you to do that in 4k?
- danw1979 4y agoNor does videoconferencing require you to be transmitting/receiving video throughout the entire session. I cut my bandwidth usage when working from home by using the toggle on receiving video when I wasn’t interacting that almost all apps provide. (it’s also nice to mute your own video when not talking to save the resources of others and also save yourself from “camera fatigue”)
- shalmanese 4y agoYou are doing 1 1/4 full time jobs' worth of video conferencing per week, every week?
- danw1979 4y agoOveremployment is a thing now, apparently.