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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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[–] 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.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Remember the net neutrality regulations that douchebag scrapped then opted to make a shitty YouTube video about? I do.

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

I live in México and pay 1119 MXN (≈ 65 USD) per month for 600/100. It also includes TV channels and a phone line. I'm satisfied with my ISP. They've never had an outage and stuff just works!

[–] 0ddysseus@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where I live in Australia, 1 hour out of Sydney, I would pay that for 1/3 the data at 1/3 the speed. Went with starlink instead.

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[–] 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.

[–] LinuxSBC@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have almost the same experience. I live in a small town in the Midwest, and the only ISP that goes to my house is Comcast/Xfinity. There's a 1.2TB cap no matter what level you pay for, though they give you the option of paying an extra $30/month for unlimited. I'm really growing to appreciate our local ISP, which provides symmetrical FTTH, unlimited data, a static (or at least rarely changing) IP, and generally non-predatory business practices, all for a lower price than Xfinity. Unfortunately, my house is on the fringe of the town, so they don't reach all the way here and I'm stuck with Xfinity.

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

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

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

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[–] 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.

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

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

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

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

[–] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've lived In rural areas in the U.S. all my life. Internet is always atrocious because the only ones that provide services out those ways know that they have no competition.

Luckily, I've had a great company come in and now have fantastic internet after they set up the infrastructure, but I still think about those days I had to use Windstream.

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

Meanwhile I'm paying $150 for less than that.

[–] 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

[–] Username@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the Netherlands we complain a lot about gas prizes, costs of groceries. et cetera.

But regarding internet we have come a long way. Fiber is available to approximately 50% of the households currently (and they are expanding fast)

Mobile data is really seen as a commodity. 5G with unlimited data is €25/€30 a month (depending on the carrier). Although 5G in the Netherlands is not yet up to speed (3,5GHz will become available soon), the realistic speeds achieved are more then decent. (Benefit of having a crowded, flat country)

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[–] query@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think we've had data limits for wired internet since moving on from dial-up/ISDN. But I'm still waiting for unmetered mobile data. Here all the supposedly competing providers are advertising 100 GB as unlimited. I'd rather pay for a reasonable specific speed with no metering, than have a connection that is so fast it can use up its monthly quota in an hour.

[–] 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.

[–] x3i@lemmy.x3i.tech 3 points 1 year ago

Holy fucking shit dude... Sorry for you but in a weird way I'm a bit relieved to see this being the case in the US as well. The village I grew up in (Germany) still has a price of ~50€ for speeds of 50-100MBit/s However, there is at least no data cap in that case. My 1000 Mbit/s contract was capped to 1TB/month as well until four years ago (40€/month). I really hope this improves for all of us soon!

[–] 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!

[–] 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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