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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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[–] x3i@lemmy.x3i.tech 4 points 1 year ago

Holy fucking shit dude... Sorry for you but in a weird way I'm a bit relieved to see this being the case in the US as well. The village I grew up in (Germany) still has a price of ~50€ for speeds of 50-100MBit/s However, there is at least no data cap in that case. My 1000 Mbit/s contract was capped to 1TB/month as well until four years ago (40€/month). I really hope this improves for all of us soon!

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Italy - 35€/mo, 1Gbps down, 300Mbps up, unlimited. Goes down at least once a month though, openfiber sucks

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[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've lived In rural areas in the U.S. all my life. Internet is always atrocious because the only ones that provide services out those ways know that they have no competition.

Luckily, I've had a great company come in and now have fantastic internet after they set up the infrastructure, but I still think about those days I had to use Windstream.

I have to have Cox Business just so I don't have to pay $50 /mo extra for unlimited Internet. It's a scam.

[–] theboomr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Bud, I pay $60/mo for 30 down, 1.5 up 🙃

[–] faceula@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

100Mbps uncapped for £26 a month. Pretty happy with that.

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[–] billygoat@catata.fish 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Tschuuuls@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Not that you will read 300+comments, but cancel and go with starlink. They probably call you back and offer you an uncapped plan :D

[–] Username@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the Netherlands we complain a lot about gas prizes, costs of groceries. et cetera.

But regarding internet we have come a long way. Fiber is available to approximately 50% of the households currently (and they are expanding fast)

Mobile data is really seen as a commodity. 5G with unlimited data is €25/€30 a month (depending on the carrier). Although 5G in the Netherlands is not yet up to speed (3,5GHz will become available soon), the realistic speeds achieved are more then decent. (Benefit of having a crowded, flat country)

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Remember the net neutrality regulations that douchebag scrapped then opted to make a shitty YouTube video about? I do.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thats rough, i live in what the rural small town folks that live around us call a “that liberal shit hole” while they are here shopping and working. I have unlimited municipal Fiber internet that just got upgraded for free!

[–] query@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think we've had data limits for wired internet since moving on from dial-up/ISDN. But I'm still waiting for unmetered mobile data. Here all the supposedly competing providers are advertising 100 GB as unlimited. I'd rather pay for a reasonable specific speed with no metering, than have a connection that is so fast it can use up its monthly quota in an hour.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] loggy@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

I have 1gbps symmetrical for €17.95 in the Netherlands.

[–] rx480@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

lmfao its 40usd for 50/20 in australia

[–] iKill101@lemmy.bleh.au 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.

From an Aussie where our Internet is somewhat considered a "public utility" (NBNCo), it's not the best. I'm paying $130/mo (Aussie bucks) for 250/100 fibre.

Our NTDs are capable of gigabit symmetrical, but thanks to our Lord and Saviour, Rupert Murdoch, it was essentially limited speed wise and the network was built with ridiculous complexity, such as the CVC constraints (Connectivity Virtual Circuit), which means ISPs have to buy additional bandwidth and hope and pray that every user doesn't max out their connections at the same time.

For example, the POI (Point of Interconnect) I'm connected to has a total of 1.5Gbps with the ISP I'm with. Based on their stats which they make public to customers, I'm guesstimating that there's approximately ~50 other households in my POI area connected with this ISP. We all have to share that bandwidth otherwise it slows to a crawl.

ETA: I'm purely talking about the FTTP network here, not the other part of the mess that is NBNCo and FTTN/C/B, Fixed Wireless, Satellite & HFC... the NBN is a complete mess.

[–] rambos@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

20€ a month for 200/20 on cable with unlimited data. Im expecting 500/200 after I move to fiber this month and hope <30€. Damn some of you pay a lot 😮

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

I have mediacom as well, but in a larger city of the midwest. They have datacaps here too, and i was paying about $100 for exactly this same plan up until a couple years ago. They started upgrading our speeds/caps because a new fiber company (metronet) is building in the area. Now i'm on 1 gbps down and a 4 TB cap. I still plan to switch to metronet when they finally light up my area, as its cheaper for the same speeds (plus no data caps)

[–] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] debeluhar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks god I have unlimited 150/50 4g internet at home for around 42€ per month. This month we downloaded around 5.5 TB of data. Also small town, countryside, no stop lights, no businesses other than bars and shops. There is only one stop light in whole region. And whole region is getting fiber optic. We had DSL, but speeds were terrible.

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