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

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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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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Datacaps? On Home PC? I don't even datacaps on my phone and I leave in bumfuck nowhere North Carolina

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[–] AstralWeekends@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I have been using Calyx for the past few months, which is a 1 year pre-paid connection through the T-Mobile network for $750 the first year. No data caps, have used it in the Southwest, South Central, and Midwest parts of the country with fairly good results. I measure up/down occasionally and get anywhere from 30Mbps - 250 Mbps up / 1 - 25 Mbps down. Lots of variety in the signal based on location and time of day, which is my main complaint, but it should be expected with a mobile data connection. Not fancy, but I go through a lot of data at my job and generally don't have much problems streaming video.

To be honest, I will probably try to switch over to a fiber connection when my year is up because I'm not longer working from the road, but it really hasn't been the worst solution by far.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Casey’s

you're in the sticks when your quicky-mart 7/11 option is Casey’s lol. Missouri?

If it's any slight consolation, I pay ridiculous prices for comcast 100mb in Seattle, and my only other option is shitty adsl that's even worse garbage.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 1 points 2 years ago

Check how much business internet would cost, there's usually no data caps.

[–] CraftyCanine@lemmy.craftycanine.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Perhaps unpopular opinion but I don’t know why people are saying they want ISPs to be treated like a utility. Most utilities charge based on how much you use… I don’t have a data cap at the moment but I’d much rather have a cap than a charge per GB used…

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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 0 points 2 years ago

I pay 95 for 400/12 and 1.2 TB. Count your blessings.

[–] blendertom@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Yikes. Only 20mbps upload (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Wrong, but better than what we get in the UK

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