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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] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Wrong, but better than what we get in the UK

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

What are you, bragging?

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

£30 - 70 down 20 up. No caps UK here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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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