T-Mobile’s Unpopular Home Internet Priority Data Limit Now Applies To Everyone
T-Mobile's newest not-a-data-cap, which would see your Home Internet data "deprioritized" after surpassing a limit, is extending to everyone.
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Here comes the Enshittification.
Not quite yet. They are only affecting the very top tier of users currently. I think it will have to get further down to the more normal user before we can truly say that.
1.25 TB isn't that hard to blow through. They set the bar way too low.
1,25 TB is nothing.
It's insane to have data caps on home internet.
It's not a data cap. It's a low prioritization threshold. You still get unlimited data after that. But you can be slowed down if the tower is congested.
I have "unlimited internet" but tmobile says 2gb or something is high speed, after that, it's pretty unusable.
That sounds like your regular mobile data plan. Not a home internet plan.
Ah I guess I confused the two. I use tmobile for mobile plan that's why.
Oh yeah, that would definitely do the trick. The home internet is its own specific plan and has unlimited data with this 1.2 terabyte low priority threshold.
I think the concept is pretty much the same though right? The low priority is extremely slow and almost unusable like on mobile
What low priority does is only slow you down during congestion. So if you're using your tower at like four in the morning when practically everybody's asleep, there's going to be no congestion and so your speeds would still be perfectly fast. However, at six o'clock PM, there's more people on the tower so you would get less speed at that time. It's not a hard throttle to a certain speed or a data cap that just shuts you off completely.
It is a precursor to a cap. And slowing down is how most caps work on top of fees. Remember, home Internet on T-Mobile is already deprioritized when faced with phone data usage.
This is true. It's just not a cap as of now.
Really? I have trouble using 200GB
You guys use more than 2GB??
Remember, this is home internet. We are talking about not mobile data.
Gosh I've been living off 12GB per month for four years... What am I missing?
Streaming TV (1080p, if I had 4k TVs it would be worse)
Working from home
Watching YouTube
Gaming
Phones on wifi
Random tech projects
The stuff no one talks about
My Son doing his homework
Streaming TV is the heavy hitter, and these ISPs know that.
Ya I would definitely do some of those things with more internet haha.