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That's not bad for the cheap plan. Even the slow mode is fast enough for video conferencing and doing basic remote work. They still have a separate unlimited pl
by Aurornis 10mo ago
That's not bad for the cheap plan. Even the slow mode is fast enough for video conferencing and doing basic remote work. They still have a separate unlimited plan for anyone who needs more.
- Neywiny 10mo agoThey explicitly say video streaming will be "limited" aka it won't work like you want it to
- bahmboo 10mo agoI haven't done a video call on it but it does work for youtube. It's best to pause a video at the start but it buffers and plays just fine. Blocky but certainly watchable.
- mattmaroon 10mo agoIf the data speed is sufficient but they’re intentionally throttling video you could maybe get around it a VPN.
- Aurornis 10mo agoZoom works in 500kbps environments in my experience. You won't be in crispy 720p or 1080p, but you can still talk to other people.
- olyjohn 10mo agoI had a shitty DSL line just a couple years ago before Starlink. Maybe 700KBps if I was lucky. Both me and my partner could remotely work on it, run zoom calls at the same time. That said, it is nice to have more bandwidth, but people do vastly overestimate how much they really need.
- userbinator 10mo agobut you can still talk to other people As should be the case, as GSM half-rate works at 5.6kbps (700 bytes per second) and gives intelligible speech.