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Data limits
. And, again, the vast majority of that is due to streaming. Plus, there is a lot of 4k streaming now, which stresses the system even more.
I quickly learned that streaming would quicky use up all of my data. Back in those days, data usage was by the day and they would throttle you down to dial up speeds when exceeded, which made it impossible to stream.
Now the throttling isn't so bad. Can one still stream after being throttled? If so, we're back to my theory that data caps are more about money than anything else.
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gaines_wright wrote:
Now the throttling isn't so bad. Can one still stream after being throttled? If so, we're back to my theory that data caps are more about money than anything else.
The ability to stream while in FAP depends on what your speed is and how loaded your beam is. Some people have been able to. Only in SD or lower, though, as far as I know.
Though you may have one, there's no theory necessary to explain data caps as the reason they're in place has been explained over and over again. It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with system capacity and throughput. Data caps were around long before the first bit was ever streamed.
