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.

  • @dfc09English
    2•1 year ago

    Holy crap everything you were saying was hitting word chords in me, so relatable, then you said Monticello. I just moved to Earl Park, was going to have to decide between Century Link and satellite, then Mainstream came through like a week before I closed on the house and installed cheap fast fiber.

    • Monkey With A ShellEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      If I where to move that would certainly be a factor in the future. I’ve been here since 2006 when the fastest offering was a lot less than it is now. Mostly I’d just like to get the speeds more balanced, I don’t really need 1G down but with all the self hosting I’ve taken to in the last few years it would be nice to boost the upload and their next tier down at 500/50 cuts the cap in at least half because '“f’ck you, we can”.