Starlink may slow down users if they use too much data

Some users are going to be slowed down by the company.

According to Starlink's new fair use policy, if you use too much internet during a billing cycle, you could be in trouble. If you don't know, throttling is the practice of slowing down someone's internet speed in order to improve the network's performance.

During the hours of 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. there will be a limit on the amount of data that can be used. If they want to continue getting higher speeds before the next billing cycle starts, they will have to spend a lot of money. According to The Verge, Starlink says that less than 10 percent of current users are over a certain amount of storage.

If you live a certain lifestyle, it is possible to use more than 1 tb of data in a single month. The downloads of games and patches can reach or even exceed 100 gigabytes. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II can be downloaded on it's own. It might be a good idea to hold off on big downloads until after 11 pm.

In the world of internet service providers, this is a fairly common practice. You can get charged an overage fee if you exceed the cap, or you can get throttled if you do.

Starlink will inevitably hit some of the same speed bumps that other internet service providers do. According to a report from September, median Starlink speeds had dropped in several countries due to network congestion after the service became more popular. People are being slowed down by Starlink.

Life is like this with new technology.