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Re:Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB with unlimited slow speed... by bscphil on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:14PM (#46623549)
It is relevant, though. I have 1.2 Gbps down with a 2 TB monthly cap. I've never hit the monthly cap even once, but by your standard I have "1.2 Gbps down for 3 hours, 42 minutes".

But that doesn't change the reality that it matters to me that a 20 GB video that a friend took at my wedding downloads in just 2 minutes rather than the ~30 minutes it would take if I had a 100 Mbps connection.

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Re:Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB with unlimited slow speed... by eterm on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:35PM (#46623903)
Right, but 3+ hours of top speed per month is a lot, 80 seconds isn't.

Your cap is over 150 times that equivalent. If you had an 80 second hard cap, you couldn't even download that 20GB video.

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Re:Starlink roam 50GB is now 100GB with unlimited slow speed... by digiown on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @09:11PM (#46627094)
1.2Gbps down but only 2TB cap? I hope that's really cheap since if I pay for that I'd expect to do stuff like downloading LLMs, etc, all the time.
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