Actually, if all 1 million or more customers downloaded at one time, the satellite would end up crippled. If my memory serves correct... Jupiter One = 125Gbps of TOTAL PEAK bandwidth. This is the amount of traffic that can pass over the entire system in either direction. Jupiter One has at an absolute minimum, 700,000 customers on it. 125Gbps/700,000=0.18~Mbps. Yeup, if ONLY 700,000 customers ALL downloaded something, and ONLY downloaded (no overhead, no upload to confirm the transfer was a success to the server and so on) you would see 0.1785Mbps, or about 170Kbps which is lower than FAP speeds. The allowance exists to make users think twice about downloading something large that they may not NEED. Satellite is a last-resort connection method. BTW... that 125Gbps is split among approximately 60 some odd beams as well, and a dozen or so different gateways.
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