For residential users, Starlink has added a 1TB monthly soft cap.

While the service will technically continue to provide unlimited bandwidth to customers, users who exceed a certain amount of data use in a single month will be throttled. Users across the U.S. received an email from Starlink. The new so-called "Fair Use" policy outlines how residential users will start out each month with "Priority Access" and then continue to receive coverage with "Basic Access" for the remainder of the monthly billing period if they reach a certain amount of data. When there is a lot of use on the network, Basic Access will get slower speeds than Priority Access customers.

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 Data used between off-peak times is noted by Starlink (11 PM and 7.AM). The priority bucket won't be counted. People can track how close they are to the soft cap via user account pages. In the past year, the media speeds of Starlink decreased in every country where it is currently available. The primary reason for the decline is user growth. Starlink is looking to improve the situation by limiting high-volume users, which it says represents less than 10% of its current subscriber base.

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