![]() ![]() Analysts had long noted that the service lacked the capacity to provide broadband to any more than a million subscribers or so worldwide. Starlink speeds were already starting to slow down due to congestion on the network. “With ‘Basic Data’ your access will no longer be prioritized over traffic generated by other customers during periods of network congestion.” “Under such plan, after you have used your monthly limit of Priority Access data, you will continue to have an unlimited amount of ‘Basic Data’ for the remainder of your billing cycle,” the company says. As in if you use over a set mount of bandwidth and you’re in an area with other hungry Starlink users, you’ll find your speeds reduced: Then there’s the year long waitlist and the complete lack of customer service.Īnd now there are rumblings that as the service runs into capacity constraints, it will soon be implementing usage caps and throttling. For one, the service keeps getting more expensive thanks to price hikes, and with a $710 first month price tag ($600 hardware fee, $110 a month) it’s too expensive for the struggling rural Americans it’s purportedly aimed at. ![]() We’d noted a few times how Elon Musk’s Starlink isn’t really as disruptive as it pretends to be. ![]()
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