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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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[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 162 points 1 year ago

In Switzerland you get unlimited 10 Gbit/s for 50 bucks.

[-] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 year ago

I hate you, congrats!

In Canada we have to give our firstborn to a telecommunication monopoly for somewhat OK internet.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Somewhat OK internet on the infrastructure our taxes paid for and the government handed over to Bell and Rogers, but don't worry, they'll stop all the other evil corporations from coming in and giving us cheaper internet.

[-] Ironside@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I pay 90 ish Canadian pesos for 1gb/1gb for Bell fibre. It's not too bad depending on your location, though that price is still too high. I'm at least making good use of it. 12tb of total transfers this month.

[-] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I pay 80$ for 1gb/750mb with bell. I could upgrade to 3/3 for 120$ but then they'd change my modem and the homehub 3000 was the last one I could remove the transceiver and plug fiber directly in my server opnsense router.

[-] MrGG@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Wait, how'd you get that with Bell? I'm pretty sure my plan is the same speeds for like... double that amount

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

I have a permanent $30 discount from when I signed up. Also, apologies, I mixed up the price with my cell plan. 90 not 60.

[-] folkrav@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm in a new construction (1yo), we only have Bell. Used to pay around that for 1Gbps, then they had a promo for 1.5Gbps at the same price couple months after we moved in. Called to complain, they ended up bumping me at that speed.

[-] Jmr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] electriccars@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

WTF? 25gbps? Dang we really do have shitty internet in the States.

[-] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

And /48 IPv6 subnet included! As it should be!

[-] kristoff@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

They're just preparing for one day when you have your own personal swarm of nano bots

[-] StayFrosty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Is it actually 10Gbit/s or just marketing? And how's the latency?

[-] Verdorrterpunkt@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

The latency for 1Gbit/s is amazing, and i seem to get that speed. But i really don't have the hardware for more anyways.

[-] Truaxe@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but those are metric bits so they are a little bit smaller.

[-] 0xCAFE@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!

[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago

🔫 hand over the internet bill

[-] yoz@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago
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