They could make it 1000GB for US$10/month and I still wouldn't give any money to a company associated with that man.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Be aware that it is bits, so 62.5kb Ok, I’m not normally one to be the pedantic bits/bytes guy, but if you’re gonna go and make a bit/byte “clarification” you need to get the annotation correct or you'll just confuse everyone. It’s 500kb (small b for bits) and 62.5kB(capital/big B for bytes).
Shouldn’t it actually be KB or even KiB?
If we're playing actually, then it's a speed not a quota, so whatever the correct value it should be suffixed with "per second".
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#44They could make it 1000GB for US$10/month and I still wouldn't give any money to a company associated with that man.
This resonates for me. I do not want my technology tied to some person I consider of despicable character. Would I buy a cell phone, even at a good deal from Putin? No. Corporations have increasingly become political. Thanks, United vs FEC! So we see them taking a knee to gain commercial advantage. And as in this case harm to our democracy. In my opinion, no discussion about Starlink is complete without considering w…
Apple is incorporated in California, USA. Does this mean that you're not buying iPhones either because you don't like Trump?
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#45They could make it 1000GB for US$10/month and I still wouldn't give any money to a company associated with that man.
That's such an unique viewpoint that no one has expressed on the internet. Thank you for bringing value to this comments section.
I was hoping to bring my karma down a bit.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Be aware that it is bits, so 62.5kb. But I agree, the internet is still usable with that.
> the internet is still usable with that. We lived for years on 56kbps, granted the Internet was different back then, but we'd still "use" it, download stuff, etc.
Unfortunately, the 56kbps internet was a lot more usable. I've been on 256kbps cellular connections (T-Mobile free international roaming) and it works, but it's pretty bad. Everything takes way more data these days, and nobody thinks about slow connections when writing software so there are a ton of overly aggressive timeouts and bad UI that assume operations won't take more than few seconds.
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#47I'm actually a huge fan of "unlimited slow speeds" as a falloff, instead of a cliff. Aside from the fact it allows you to work with Starlink to buy more fast speed, it also allows core stuff to continue to function (e.g. basic notifications, non-streaming web traffic, etc).
My mobile data plan is like this. It’s funny because when I’m “out of data” my provider sends an SMS suggesting I upgrade to more gigabytes, but then it still continues to work. And yes I checked my bills to make sure that they are not charging me for any usage excess of what’s included in the plan. It’s not even particularly slow. I can still browse the web, send and receive WhatsApp messages, images and videos, wat…
There are still telcos offering 2GB plans. Wow. I’m on the cheapest plan and it comes with 400GB.
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#48That’s great for me. I use it mainly for work (food trucks, not much data) but sometimes I’ll use it for personal stuff like weekend camping and hit the 50. Now I can just not worry about it ever.
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#49I want the old plan back. If we went over the 50Gb/month, there was the option of continuing on at $1/Gb, which is the same price per Gb as the base plan. IOW, they didn't punish you for going over. Now if we go over, it's either put up with slow speed data, or upgrade to unlimited.
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.