I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.

And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.

Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

  • Dataprolet
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    1641 year ago

    In Switzerland you get unlimited 10 Gbit/s for 50 bucks.

    • @[email protected]
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      1021 year ago

      I hate you, congrats!

      In Canada we have to give our firstborn to a telecommunication monopoly for somewhat OK internet.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        Somewhat OK internet on the infrastructure our taxes paid for and the government handed over to Bell and Rogers, but don’t worry, they’ll stop all the other evil corporations from coming in and giving us cheaper internet.

      • @Ironside
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        1 year ago

        I pay 90 ish Canadian pesos for 1gb/1gb for Bell fibre. It’s not too bad depending on your location, though that price is still too high. I’m at least making good use of it. 12tb of total transfers this month.

        • @[email protected]
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          81 year ago

          I pay 80$ for 1gb/750mb with bell. I could upgrade to 3/3 for 120$ but then they’d change my modem and the homehub 3000 was the last one I could remove the transceiver and plug fiber directly in my server opnsense router.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Wait, how’d you get that with Bell? I’m pretty sure my plan is the same speeds for like… double that amount

          • @Ironside
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            21 year ago

            I have a permanent $30 discount from when I signed up. Also, apologies, I mixed up the price with my cell plan. 90 not 60.

          • @folkrav
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    • @Jmr
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      141 year ago

      what the hell

    • Stay Frosty
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      131 year ago

      Is it actually 10Gbit/s or just marketing? And how’s the latency?

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        The latency for 1Gbit/s is amazing, and i seem to get that speed. But i really don’t have the hardware for more anyways.