Starlink ends its unlimited satellite Internet data policy as download speeds keep dropping

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Usage in the off-peak hours of 11PM-7AM doesn't count towards the allotment, as a way to coax subscribers into moving their heavy downloads during the night time.According to Starlink's new Fair Usage Policy that has been disseminated to North American subscribers since Friday, the excessive users will have the option to restore their Priority Access for 25 cents per gigabyte, otherwise they'll stay deprioritized on Basic Access until the end of the month.Before the big subscriber rush, Starlink had its 350 Mbps speed tier listed in the residential sector on its website, while it is now shown in the business options that are much more expensive.Some users suggest that maintaining two Starlink satellite Internet subscriptions would now be cheaper than paying the US$0.25 per gigabyte for the next 1TB of Priority Access at the full speed possible.The end of Starlink's unlimited Internet policy was even commented on by none other than Ethereum's creator Vitalik Buterin who warned that 1TB of data per month won't be enough for the "scaling endgame" he proposed earlier in the year that could solve the Ethereum blockchain congestions."

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