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Re: Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB

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Post by userbinator »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #232
ac29 wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Embeddedworks sells unlimited 750kbps service for $90/year. Its data only, no phone or SMS. When I talked to them earlier this year they said there was potential to sell other data rates though nothing was as low as $2/month.

Unfortunately their plan is an IoT plan “Not Intended for Phones or Tablets” [0] That’s exactly the issue - it’s a great plan, it’s just contractually stopped from being offered because a lot of people would potentially switch to that..! :) To me, the fact that the restriction exists is a proof of the demand for this. [0] https://embeddedworks.net/product/wsim0331-sub/

Is it a restriction or just a disclaimer? "Not intended" doesn't necessarily mean "prohibited".

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Post by userbinator »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #30

I had a “hit” post on bsky [0] (90 likes, big numbers for me) asking whether people would want an unlimited mobile plan throttled at 256kbps for $2/month. Seems like yes? There’s lots to say about how useable it is (I often get throttled when traveling and it’s really not that bad + it helps curb any desire to scroll videos!) But mainly I want to ask - I looked into it for a minute and it seems like you couldn’t star…

"unlimited", or basically ~80GB/month if you saturate it 24/7 as users are likely to.

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Post by userbinator »

Aurornis wrote: post #203
Neywiny wrote: post #13

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They explicitly say video streaming will be "limited" aka it won't work like you want it to

Zoom works in 500kbps environments in my experience. You won't be in crispy 720p or 1080p, but you can still talk to other people.

but 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.

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numpad0 wrote: post #259
huydotnet wrote: post #212

Unrelated to the conversation, but the post title was something like "Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB and unlimited slow speed after that", then a minute later it's now "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB". Was this change made by a mod or OP, and why would someone making that change? I do think the original title was more descriptive, and the new title was completely out of context, or it's imply that everyone is using Sta…

If I were to guess, probably because Musk achieved self-fulfilling prophecy of hate and discriminatory handling against him, and now any obviously him related content gets massive, organic, figurative, score penalties. Tesla and SpaceX posts used to routinely hit the top spots and accumulate thousands of comments here, now they hardly stay an hour on the first page. Someone on the Internet's first headphone amp is no…

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Post by CamperBob2 »

GaryBluto wrote: post #168
whimsicalism wrote: post #141

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Does Jeff Bezos believe we need white solidarity to survive because non-white people are a threat to white men?

Elon Musk is a deluded addict who thinks he's doing the right thing, Jeff Bezos is in it for himself only and knows it.

Jeff Bezos is in it for himself only and knows it.

And I'm OK with that.

Not so much the white-supremacy stuff.

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Post by bawolff »

jader201 wrote: post #207
Salgat wrote: post #139

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I would kill for a web renaissance to return to this format of webpages, as least as an option. Not only loading improves, but also navigation and accessibility.

> but also navigation and accessibility Counterpoint, HN is notoriously hard to use on mobile (still better than some, but it's clearly designed for desktop, and not super responsive). But agreed, that's independent of the slim nature of the webpage (which is still possible with a good mobile UX).

I dont get this. HN is probably one of the easiest sites i regularly use on mobile.

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Post by killingtime74 »

jamieatlason wrote: post #251
steffan wrote: post #49

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This is the equivalent of having the previous 50GB base plan and going over by $50 worth of data (an additional 50GB). If you were routinely going 50GB over the 50GB plan, I'd suggest that maybe a 50GB plan wasn't the right plan for you. Under the old plan, 100GB of data would have cost $100. Residential unlimited is $120, so for most users this would seem like an improvement.

The residential plan can't be used with the Starlink mini, only the full size Starlink. At least that's the case in the US. Cheapest plan is now $165 for users that need over 100GB. I still think this is mostly a positive change, but it is a bummer that the service plans keep changing.

In Australia/NZ (where I've tried it) you can. Also you may be able to change to it even though when you sign up it's not available

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Post by gramie »

bahmboo wrote: post #2

Nice that instead of completely cutting you off at the cap they put it in super slow 500 kbits. That is actually usable and used to be the fastest speed you could get at home.

> used to be the fastest speed you could get at home

My 1200 baud from 1987 would beg to differ. Granted, that was for bulletin boards, not the WWW (which hadn't been invented yet).

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Post by AdamJacobMuller »

vidarh wrote: post #4
bahmboo wrote: post #2

Nice that instead of completely cutting you off at the cap they put it in super slow 500 kbits. That is actually usable and used to be the fastest speed you could get at home.

My first company was an ISP, and our selling point was that we had higher bandwith out of Norway than any competitors in our price range.... A whopping 512kps.

I remember being amazingly excited to have saved up enough money to go to the store and buy a 33.6 modem (an amazing upgrade from my 14.4).

A year or so later I upgraded to a v.92 only to realize my ISP (I think it was IDT at the time) didn't support that and only supported some other 56k "standard" (details are sketchy on this, I was like 12). I was devastated and it was too late to drive back to computer city to exchange it for the correct one.

Now I have 10G symmetric in my house.

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Post by ATMLOTTOBEER »

typon wrote: post #131
dayyan wrote: post #127

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That's the magic of the free market. Even with no direct rival yet, Starlink innovates like crazy because the threat of competition is always there and consumers demand excellence. Unlike state-granted monopolies, those parasitic structures stagnate and plunder the people.

Is this why Google Search has been getting better and better every year?

You actually bolster his point by using search as an example: search has been completely eaten alive by a better alternative (ai chat).
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