Elon Musk's Starlink will restrict users' access to the internet throughout the day.
According to Starlink's (SpaceX's internet subsidiary) new fair use policy, people who use Starlink for home internet may now experience throttling if they use too much internet during a monthly billing cycle. This information was provided by Mashable India.
Throttling is the technique of purposefully reducing someone's internet speed to enhance the performance of the network as a whole.
Users whose monthly data usage between 7 AM and 11 PM exceeds 1 TB will be throttled. Customers can pay USD 0.25 per GB of data if they wish to continue receiving better speeds before the start of the next billing period, but otherwise, it will be a one-way trip to slowness town.
Less than 10% of current Starlink members use more than 1TB per month. It is not difficult to foresee using more than 1TB of data in a month for people who lead a specific lifestyle.
The cost of additional Priority Access data is 25 cents per GB, and any data used between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. is not deducted from your Priority Access total. (For instance, you could wish to schedule device backups to run when everyone is sleeping or download new Call of Duty upgrades.)
Priority Access is completely unavailable to RV and Portability satellite internet users, however there are multiple tiers available to anyone with a Business account or who is using Starlink at sea.
From the Starlink app or the webpage for your Starlink account, you can keep tabs on your data usage and choose to purchase Priority Access data. Data limits and Priority Access pricing for Starlink's business and mobility services are also covered in the new Fair Use policy.