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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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[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I hate you, congrats!

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

[–] secretfoxtail@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I am very thankful that I do not live in the United States. Even in Canada where telecommunications services are notoriously expensive, data caps on cellphone plans are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Carriers like Freedom Mobile will simply throttle your speed instead of charging you a boatload of money once you pass your monthly data "limit".

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

Dude... The US is doing it wrong. SE Asia. 1Gbps symmetrical, unlimited, unrestricted. ~14US$.

[–] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dont worry, the market will simply regulate itself.

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

It's ok. Compeition will drive down prices! I have so many options with internet such as Comcast and Company that pretends to compete with Comcast.

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

I think the "invisible hand of the market" swats more people than it helps.

[–] Ryan@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Thailand I'm getting 400Mbps upload and download with unlimited data.

It costs about 300฿/mo ≈ $8.7/mo

[–] GatoB@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But you also get paid less

[–] Ryan@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Although I agree that people get paid less here, I highly doubt that it costs an ISP in the US 8x more to transfer data than an ISP in Thailand.

I'm not really trying to argue that Thai internet is cheap, it's that internet elsewhere is exorbitantly expensive.

[–] rizoid@midwest.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was very close to closing on a house in rural midwest but I checked isp's and every one available had caps so I just stayed away.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's why you just get a business line, usually just slightly more expensive, and you get 99.9% SLA uptime and unlimited cap.

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

You shouldn't need a business line to get reliable, fast, unlimited internet.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub -1 points 2 years ago

Build your own ISP :)