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You 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.



We are altering the terms and conditions. Pray we don't alter them further.


So this doesn't affect you at all.




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