Residential users of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet might have a new — and incredibly annoying — reason to get offline. Per SpaceX's new, Musk is about to start throttling users' service if they use over 1TB per month data cap. That's not a totally meager amount, but you could easily burn through it by downloading a handful of modern video games.
In other words, if Starlinkers go over that cap, the company will intentionally slow their service down, automatically moving users from faster "Priority Access" to a lagging "Basic Access." Unless users cough up some cash for every extra gigabyte used, that is. "Starlink is a finite resource that will continue to grow as we launch additional satellites," reads the policy, essentially chalking the frustrating change up to organizational growing pains. "To serve the greatest number of people with high speed internet we must manage the network to balance Starlink supply with user demand."that Musk's ever tacked to his ISP — it's that any internet usage between 11 PM and 7 AM won't count towards that monthly data cap.
Of course, it's not completely unheard of for ISPs to turn to data caps, especially as they grow. And according to SpaceX, which was already
dude, just use a zettawatt
Congrats & GODSPEED
How pathetic the griping is in this article.
If you’re using a TB of data in a month you absolutely need to get a life.
REBOOT
Just like Tesla...pay us more or we won't turn your expensive bad Q/C car on.