1 TB isn't a big amount tbh. Watch few youtube videos or 4k videos and you will reach 1 TB within 5-10 days. I live with 3 family member who continuously watches and we always cross 1 TB per month, so I don't think we are abusing the service.
That being said, I do understand it might be fair for starlink as it is a satelite internet.
What is “a few” videos. 20 minutes @4k is1gb per visit.
So you’re talking about 1000 videos in 5-10 days. Are you seriously watching 200-400 20 min videos per day?
That’s 4000-8000 minutes per day! Also you have to go through this outside of the nightly window.
That means you’re watching 66 hours of video every 16 hours.
Even if this was the case, then that’s literally the only thing your family does, and you should be happy that that can be covered with only $100 per month lol
From Netflix:
Basic ($8.99 per month): Standard definition (480p) content on a single screen at a time.
Standard ($12.99 per month): High definition (up to 1080p) content on two screens at a time.
Premium ($15.99 per month): Ultra HD (up to 4K) content on four screens at a time.
From Netflix:
High definition (HD) 720p: 3 Mbps
Full high definition (FHD) 1080p: 5 Mbps
4K/Ultra HD (UHD) 4K: 15 Mbps
That's 142 hours of watching Netflix (outside the nightly window) almost 5 hours per day. I can assure you Netflix doesn't make that much good stuff
I can confirm that my wife and kid easily blow through 500 gigs a month just watching TV. 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
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
The cap-free usage at night is nice, though. Assuming we don't all start streaming 3D point cloud videos or meshes and textures any time soon, that should keep the service comfortably usable for a few people at a time all month.
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.
It's very easy to hit that cap with a moderately-sized family doing normal things all month, no piracy needed.
> 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.
The news is one situation a lot of people have it just on. Not much to do about that, even though they're repeating the same items over and over again.
Netflix asks you every few hours if you're still watching.
Would be great to have some sort of 'attention' detection, for example some gaze tracking camera in your tv, so it can automatically switch between SD and 4K, but also dim the backlight to save energy. I'm just not sure if I would want a camera in my tv which checks if I actually look at it.
Most people won't even notice if it's 1024p instead of 4k. Really
"1TB per month" sounds awfully entitled. And yeah, deprioritizing sounds like a fair solution.