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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    15411 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      9711 months 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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        1811 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months 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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          811 months 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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          411 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months 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.

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            11 months ago

            I’m in a new construction (1yo), we only have Bell. Used to pay around that for 1Gbps, then they had a promo for 1.5Gbps at the same price couple months after we moved in. Called to complain, they ended up bumping me at that speed.

    • Stay Frosty
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      1211 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months 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.

    • 0xCAFe
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      211 months ago

      And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!