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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago by itellyouhwhat@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] norav@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Consider yourself lucky, I pay around 100 euros for a 100Mb wich does not even reach 40 in download at times. (Italy)

[–] rx480@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

lmfao its 40usd for 50/20 in australia

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Germany calling. Shot internet here. On my village (close to Ulm) telecom will give you a maximum 16mb dsl which in reality is around 8 down for 40€ a month.

Installed Starlink and get 150 to 250 down and 30 up for 65 a month.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I pay more for 200/20, but no limits. That sucks!

[–] loggy@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here in Sri Lanka I'm paying ~20 USD for FTTH 100 Mbps. Monthly bandwidth is limited to 155 GB lol.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 2 years ago

I'm with the only uncapped service in my area, it's $90/mo for 10mb/s and it's unreliable as all fuck.

[–] billygoat@catata.fish 3 points 2 years ago

Let’s be real here, for a gas station Casey’s has damn good pizza.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah Comcast has been doing it for a while.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'd be so screwed on that plan. According to my router, I've downloaded 5311 GB in the last 30 days, and uploaded 399 GB. Sure doesn't feel like it in hindsight, but some family members are on YouTube all day every day, others constantly downloading new games on Steam, and my Plex media Server and *arr apps just chews through data.

[–] 0x0@social.rocketsfall.net 2 points 2 years ago

Friend of mine lives in bumfuck nowhere here in the US (like, no access to running water if it goes without raining for a few weeks - that kind of rural) and has gigabit up/down for $60 somehow. Meanwhile, there's 2 or 3 ISPs in my area who will gladly take $60 for half that speed and dog shit upload. I pay for both a resi and biz line and the latter is the same speed for $15 more. Criminal.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

300Mbps symmetric, no cap, for $55.32 (Northern California).

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Aussie chiming in 50/20mbps for $90/m. I wanted 50mbps upload but it would have bumped the cost to $130/m.

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I pay about $ 25 for unlimited 300 MBit/s, I also get 50 GB of data in all of the EU, 100 MB world wide roaming and 100 minutes world wide calling.

Oh, and it’s on my phone.

[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…

For the past 15 years I've had a data cap on home internet, but never had a data cap prior to that.

That's led me to believe the exact opposite of your observation; unlimited data is a thing of the past and data caps are a thing of the present and future.

[–] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Man, the US is weird sometimes. I don't think I've ever had a data cap on my home internet.

[–] Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 2 points 2 years ago

EU - 30 USD 400/200 MBbs fiber no data cap here :)

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