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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
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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] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I hate you, congrats!

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what the hell

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Home internet data caps WERE a thing of the past when Obama appointed Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman, who then pushed rulings to classify ISPs as a public utility and started enforcing net neutrality. Companies that didn't play ball started getting fined until they fell in line. Being a former executive for a major ISP, he was very familiar with the anti-competitive practices and underhanded tricks those companies had been using for years; and he used those practices against them to finally make some pro-consumer progress for internet access in the US.

Then, Trump came in and put Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC (no joke, my phone kept auto correcting his name to Shit Pie). Anyways, Shit Pie tore down those rulings and undid all those years of progress as part of the Trump administration's anti-Obama initiative. Even though it was proven time and again that what he did was directly against public opinion, and that ISPs were flooding the public commentary with bot posts(some even made by dead people); Shit Pie continued to meme about himself and drink from an obnoxiously large Reese's coffee mug while doing so. At this point, every provider of internet services has added back data caps in the US, and they have continued to increase their prices to maintain that 99.9% profit margin. They've also locked down more areas to prevent municipal broadband services from forming, and they're even pushing for legislation to prevent them from ever happening.

The current administration has done absolutely nothing. In fact, they've been so unremarkable, I have no idea who is in charge of the FCC, and I don't feel like looking it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

U should come to australia. Our internet is worse than most 3rd world countries. And u need a business plan to get symmetric upload thats so slow i doubt u could hit a 1tb cap if u tried.

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

I get unlimited 10Gbps symmetric fiber for $40/month. One of the only affordable things in the San Francisco Bay Area, lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Off topic: I see that there is "9 more replies" and I am unable to expand the thread... could someone please offer guidance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I see them!

Here's a screenshot:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It works now? I am going to read the lemmy.org guide and hopefully mend this. Thank you for replying, your instance has a comfortable ui.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My screenshot is from the "Boost" mobile app on Android :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

https://upvote.au/comment/949970 - I was referring to your instance. It is yours right? It does feel counterintuitive to use a closed source client to access an open-source network. If I may ask, how did you make the decision to use boost for lemmy?

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

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

It costs about 300฿/mo ≈ $8.7/mo

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

'Murica #1!!! (In high internet prices)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But you also get paid less

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

Dont worry, the market will simply regulate itself.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

I had the 1.25 TB a month cap all the time till earlier this year when all of a sudden they ran a symmetric fiber here. Eastern us, not rural at all. I went with 500mbps/50$ a month - dont really need more for myself, but the lack of a cap is just amazing as I ran against the limit so many times before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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AP WiFi Access Point
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
Plex Brand of media server package
VPN Virtual Private Network

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] -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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Build your own ISP :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

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