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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TF you smoking? I pay 25€/ mo. For gigabit connection with no data caps. The US is getting hosed because it’s a corporatocracy and the ISPs have acted like robber barons for the past three decades. Don’t normalize this blatantly anti consumer bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To add to this, my country has been rolling out 10Gbps U/D FTTH for 35€/Month for a while, and even rural areas usually have at least 500Mbps U/D, all of it uncapped.

Gotta say, more than a decade ago ISP's tried to implement data caps on home internet, and it failed spectacularly.

I weep for our American brethren, may they find a way out of the hole they're in...

[–] eatstorming 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not normalizing anything and I didn't say there is nowhere you can get unlimited plans. I said it's not a thing of the past.

I too have uncapped broadband, but I know it's not something I should fall into the trap of taking for granted.

[–] breadsmasher 2 points 1 year ago

£65 a month for gigabit for me. But no data caps. Not even noticed soft caps after multi terabytes download in a monthly period