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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had uncapped 500/50Mbps for €10 but now I moved to a village and I'm stuck with 100/10Mbps for €20 :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got 1000/1000 fiber for €32, which I think is a pretty good deal in the Netherlands at the moment. I will go back to 100/100 for probably a similar amount after my contract is up as 1000/1000 is simply overkill for our use case. But who knows, maybe I'll find another deal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve got 1000/1000 fiber for €32

you lucky bastards. higher qol and better broadband? hope your nipples freeze off, I'm envious.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jokes on you. I don't have nipples.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You're lucky, I'm on 25/2Mbps and I pay £32 per month for the privilege.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lmao rural USA checking in, 20Mbps down for $200 a month. Kill me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm slightly baffled by all this. I'm scheduled to get my line upgraded to be able to handle 100mbps in 2025 and I'm currently able to get 48mbps which costs me about USD55/mo. I only got the upgrade from 8mbps in 2019 (stupid conservative govt). While I'm looking forward to the better connection, I don't really find a problem with 50 at the moment. I work from home, I stream multiple instances of media, I torrent things sometimes. I think I'm on an cap of 1tb but tbh I'd have to check if that's what it still is, I haven't looked for a long time.