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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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[-] CatTrickery@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I live in the UK and currently have copper cable at about 60mbps for £60 per month. I thought what I had was bad because I have a friend who gets 1gbps for £30 a few miles away.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm in the US and get 1Gbps for about £30, because my city forced ISPs to sell portions of their networks to third party competitions to break up monopolies.

[-] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Crazy that they make you pay in pounds in the US though.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Where on earth are you and who with to be fleeced that much?

[-] CatTrickery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In the north-west. BT currently have a local monopoly so they can charge what they want

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So it’s my impression that (and my knowledge might be out of date here) but almost anywhere that BT is then there should be at least 1 other company that operates on their lines (or rather Openreaches line, after they were split out of BT for competition purposes) so you should be able to get someone else with luck.

Try using Sam knows website and they tell lots about your line and what you can get.

[-] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If you're rural, check out B4RN.

[-] art101@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Where the hell in the UK are you? I'm in the North and pay £26 for 60mbps but get more like 70 due to how close I am to the street cabinet though I haven't even got copper cable here, just crappy aluminium that is so old I think Alexander Graham Bell himself fitted them.

[-] CatTrickery@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in the north-west but I'm limited to BT because nobody else has cables down yet. A different company claims to be fitting FttP round here in a few months though.

[-] art101@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Similar issue here, full fibre roll out is estimated to be complete in 2025.

I'm just outside Newcastle on the coast and could get Virgin but my neighbours have had a nightmare with it.

They only rolled out their fibre about three months ago so there might be issues with that

[-] hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm in leeds and pay £30 a month for 1gig with virgin. You sould move house. Get better broadband.

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