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.

  • Dandroid
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    61 year ago

    Yikes. I pay $80 a month for 1Gbps up and down with no data cap. It’s amazing what happens when one company doesn’t have a monopoly in an area. Prices go down and quality of service goes up.

    • Piranha Phish
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      1 year ago

      *edit: replied to wrong comment