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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.

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[–] gogosempai@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was shocked when my friend from India told me that for 400 Mbps up and down, he pays only $14/month. Limit: 3.3 TB per month.

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[–] Manzabar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No fiber available to my house, so I'm stuck with paying ~$85 for 50/2. Or switching ISPs and briefly getting a chair rate for faster speeds, but adding in a data cap and less reliability.

[–] Tschuuuls@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Not that you will read 300+comments, but cancel and go with starlink. They probably call you back and offer you an uncapped plan :D

[–] ugjka@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Rural area in Latvia, LTE home internet 100 megs down 30 up, unlimited, 19.99€

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I pay $60 for 600d 10u And I'm in a "major" east coast city. I have access to ONE broadband provider. The only difference is I currently don't have a hard cap, although it I started using more than 1-2TB a month they'd drop me or find a way to force me into a higher tier.

[–] badamsz@whemic.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

2000/2000 Mbit fiber without a cap for $95/mo. in Maine, US.

This does feel a bit surreal though as prior to this my options were 3/.5 Mbit DSL for $75/mo. (bonding wasn't an option, no plans by ISP to upgrade), then 25/10 Mbit fixed wireless for $95 /mo. from a local provider (which worked when it felt like it and then was undergoing "maintenance" for weeks at a time making it unusable), then paying Spectrum a $5500+ ransom to run Cable down my driveway and then ultimately pay $115/mo. for 300/20 Mbit. Spectrum didn't have a cap due to the Charter -> TWC acquisition consent decree but I'm sure it was coming after that expired.

When fiber came to town everything else suddenly got cheaper but screw them, they kept raising the rates and fees when there wasn't any meaningful competition. Fidium didn't even charge me an install fee and I'm not under a contract. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Same here, no data cap but upload speeds of 10Mbps is absolutely brutal.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same boat here, I have what seems to be a legacy plan now for a 1G/50M with 6 or maybe 8 TB (it changed during the plauge years and I don't recall if they dropped it back down) for about $150/month. The only other options around are wireless or a 80/10 dsl through century link that interestingly enough has no cap. Supposedly century link is working on fiber sometime that will give a dymetric uncapped option for about $70 though.

Meanwhile, in the town of Moticello less than 50 miles away they have two high end fiber nets because the city decided to build their own and the local ISP decided it better do so to in order to not be extinct, after of course trying to sue the city saying they can't do that.

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[–] faceula@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (13 children)

100Mbps uncapped for £26 a month. Pretty happy with that.

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[–] theboomr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Bud, I pay $60/mo for 30 down, 1.5 up 🙃

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Italy - 35€/mo, 1Gbps down, 300Mbps up, unlimited. Goes down at least once a month though, openfiber sucks

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[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have 1gbps symmetrical for €17.95 in the Netherlands.

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[–] Gryxx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I know i'm privileged paying 70 PLN (~17 USD) for symmetrical gigabit link, but holy shit man, that picture hurts.

[–] Master@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I pay 150 a month for 20/10mbps (actual is more like 10/5) with a 1.5tb cap. I would stab a baby to get yours.

I have to have Cox Business just so I don't have to pay $50 /mo extra for unlimited Internet. It's a scam.

[–] who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thats rough, i live in what the rural small town folks that live around us call a “that liberal shit hole” while they are here shopping and working. I have unlimited municipal Fiber internet that just got upgraded for free!

[–] loggy@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here in Sri Lanka I'm paying ~20 USD for FTTH 100 Mbps. Monthly bandwidth is limited to 155 GB lol.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I pay more for 200/20, but no limits. That sucks!

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah Comcast has been doing it for a while.

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[–] billygoat@catata.fish 3 points 1 year ago

Let’s be real here, for a gas station Casey’s has damn good pizza.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lobbying captured local states' law (by ISP's) and so some places can petition to have their own internet at cities and have, but these laws sometimes prevent that. But we should still try to petition to get a city based internet. It's worth it.

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[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Germany calling. Shot internet here. On my village (close to Ulm) telecom will give you a maximum 16mb dsl which in reality is around 8 down for 40€ a month.

Installed Starlink and get 150 to 250 down and 30 up for 65 a month.

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