Sounds like this could make life harder on soaring forecast web sites.

...david

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...net-bandwidth/

Excerpt:

Susan Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the Weather Service: “User requests for data continue to increase and without imposing some type of mitigation,” she continued, “the bandwidth situation will worsen, potentially impacting a larger number of users.”

According to companies that draw large amounts of this data, the proposed limit will substantially harm the services they provide to customers. The possible negative effect on forecasts has also raised concerns among congressional lawmakers.