That's not bad for the cheap plan. Even the slow mode is fast enough for video c...

Neywiny · 2026-01-14T17:30:09 1768411809

They explicitly say video streaming will be "limited" aka it won't work like you want it to

bahmboo · 2026-01-14T17:47:00 1768412820

I haven't done a video call on it but it does work for youtube. It's best to pause a video at the start but it buffers and plays just fine. Blocky but certainly watchable.

mattmaroon · 2026-01-14T18:04:17 1768413857

If the data speed is sufficient but they’re intentionally throttling video you could maybe get around it a VPN.

Aurornis · 2026-01-14T20:33:21 1768422801

Zoom works in 500kbps environments in my experience.

You won't be in crispy 720p or 1080p, but you can still talk to other people.

olyjohn · 2026-01-15T02:31:27 1768444287

I had a shitty DSL line just a couple years ago before Starlink. Maybe 700KBps if I was lucky. Both me and my partner could remotely work on it, run zoom calls at the same time. That said, it is nice to have more bandwidth, but people do vastly overestimate how much they really need.

userbinator · 2026-01-15T02:57:59 1768445879

but you can still talk to other people

As should be the case, as GSM half-rate works at 5.6kbps (700 bytes per second) and gives intelligible speech.