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

submitted 10 months 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] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm reading all the comments and I'm shocked... In France, with uncapped access and 1Gbps down/600Mbps up (theorical) I pay 40€/mo (30€ every six month when I call to complain that it's too expensive). And it's definitely not the cheapest provider.

That's insane !

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

1Gbps down/700Mbps up here, 35€/month (another french provider), no data caps - for 5 bucks/month more I could have 5Gbps down/1Gbps up, but... well, my home network is still using 1Gbps switches - but all the cabling was built with 10Gbps in mind.

Data caps are pure robbery. We run a non-profit ISP/hosting platform and a non-profit IXP with friends in West France, the only thing you pay (and the only thing end users should have to pay) is goddamn bandwidth.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting that they give you more up than down. Are you on a server plan or something like that?

Edit: lol just noticed what community this is, server plan makes more sense now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I messed up, that's the opposite actually ^^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

(30€ every six month when I call to complain that it's too expensive)

Sounds like a Liberty Global owned telecom company... they love their annual price increases ugh, but they are usually the fastest option in most areas