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> The wife likes to leave the news channel on all day, and I don't think that's a ghastly, unheard-of, abusive thing to do with a TV. Are you using Starlink, o
by Jedd 4y ago
> The wife likes to leave the news channel on all day, and I don't think that's a ghastly, unheard-of, abusive thing to do with a TV.
Are you using Starlink, or are you one of those people commenting on this thread about how much bandwidth you use on non-satellite services?
In any case, I understand that you don't think it's ghastly to leave 'TV on in the background all the time, every day', but please understand in return that the rest of us contending for the same network resources don't think this is reasonable.
> If I leave any games on auto-update and work from home all month, we get pretty close to Comcast's 1.2TB cap every month.
This sounds like this acceptable usage policy doesn't affect you at all, in any way.
Also, that you're unaware that your auto-update games download manager has a facility to schedule downloads at certain times of the day.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoTo bring things back around for you: You strongly implied that any household that uses a terabyte per month outside of late night hours is "abusing" the service. I'm just here to explain that you're wrong in your accusation. It's very easy to hit that cap with a moderately-sized family doing normal things all month, no piracy needed.
- Jedd 4y agoYou didn't answer my question - are you a Starlink customer, and are you impacted by this policy change? > You strongly implied that any household that uses a terabyte per month outside of late night hours is "abusing" the service. This is at best incomplete, or at worst incorrect. I said that for the Starlink service people consuming excessive network bandwidth are abusing the service - because they're impacting the performance for 'normal' users -- a set that includes me. If you're consuming more than 1TB on a service that isn't as physically restricted as a LEO satellite service, well good for you. This story is about Starlink changing their terms and conditions to limit the impact of inconsiderate users. Aside - my gut feel is that they're actually targeting the >10TB / month users, or some other relatively high threshold of really heavy & persistent users, but by simply stating a ceiling they're tacitly saying anything up to that volume is okay - and they don't want to normalise really large volumes, hence picking a 1TB figure.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoWe are altering the terms and conditions. Pray we don't alter them further.
- Jedd 4y agoSo this doesn't affect you at all.