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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 161 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 8 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.

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[-] 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.

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[-] 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.

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[-] SirMaple_@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago

Data caps on home internet services should be illegal. They should also be much higher on mobile, but that's a whole other topic.

I have 940/940 Unlimited FTTH for $93.45(Canadian).

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

And France gets 5Gbps for €30 per month or 8Gbps for €40 per month. I’m in the US now and really miss free.fr as my ISP

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[-] Dettweiler42@lemmyonline.com 79 points 1 year 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.

[-] khalic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

The Biden admin tried to nominate an amazing woman, Gigi Sohn, worked for the EFF. But try to guess who opposed her?

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[-] Ryan@programming.dev 57 points 1 year ago

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

It costs about 300฿/mo ≈ $8.7/mo

[-] electriccars@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

USAGE ALLOWANCE?!?!

Laughs in Scandinavian

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[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] RetroEvolute@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the ISP cartels sucks. I've been stuck paying $170/mo for uncapped 1000/35mbps connection.

Thankfully, before the end of the year, a local ISP is moving into my area. They offer uncapped symmetrical gigabit, for $75/mo... I'll be saving $95/mo for BETTER service.

The longstanding ISP cartels should seriously be punished for the abuse of their market positions and failure to appropriately use government funding they've been given.

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[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$40 for 2 Gbps unlimited in Singapore. Caps on home broadband are frankly nonsensical.

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[-] vojel@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

In Germany we pay lots of money for 5G data volume. For me I got 20 Gigs for about 40 bucks, this is mostly Not a thing in the rest of Europe. But data plans on landlines are really dumb.

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[-] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm reading all the comments and I'm shocked... In France, with uncapped access and 1Gbps down/600Mbps up (theorical) I pay 40€/mo (30€ every six month when I call to complain that it's too expensive). And it's definitely not the cheapest provider.

That's insane !

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[-] rizoid@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

lol uncapped 500mbps fiber (actual fiber directly to your house) connection is 10-12$/month in Ukraine

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I'm in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up

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[-] CatTrickery@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I live in the UK and currently have copper cable at about 60mbps for £60 per month. I thought what I had was bad because I have a friend who gets 1gbps for £30 a few miles away.

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[-] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 15 points 1 year ago

Where I am, there was only one provider of internet for a long time, and I was paying for a plan that's more or less what you have right now. Then another company came in and laid fiber, and both companies slashed prices and now I get over double my download speed, no data cap, and something crazy like 50x the old upload speed all for like 20 dollars less a month! Before I switched to the fiber company, the first company even increased my download speeds without increasing the price! Anyone who says competition doesn't change things is crazy.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Competition is beautiful ain’t it?

[-] randombullet@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Lol Germany here checking in 500/50 for 29.99

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[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I had uncapped 500/50Mbps for €10 but now I moved to a village and I'm stuck with 100/10Mbps for €20 :(

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[-] brenno@lemmy.brennoflavio.com.br 13 points 1 year ago

In Brazil I pay 20 USD for 500mb. There are plans in my area that sells 1gb for 30 USD. Thay can't put data caps due to legislation, only on mobile data (which I pay 6usd for 20gb cap, 5g)

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

Well, the internet companies have successfully bribed politicians to avoid competition. This is just the normal result of everyday corruption.

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[-] Naura@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Yea while we were in alaska we were capped. we were in fairbanks as well, which isn't that rural. I lived in the high desert of california. drive 20 min from hesperia to phelan and you could probably get meth easier than consistent internet.

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[-] FailBait@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

About to move to a new house, pretty much had to harass Verizon for a week to add the address to their database so I could move our service.

$70/mo for 1Gig up/down with no cap. The alternative was Xfinity.

I was not going to Xfinity.

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[-] quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Shit dude, I pay €20 for synchronous 1Gb/s.

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[-] kite@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

OP, check out the websites about grants ISPs are getting to put fiber in rural areas and see if your area is on the list somewhere (I would try and link you to some, but I'm on mobile and for some reason I have a hell of a time finding those sites while on mobile). You can see below what I've had to deal with for about 20 years, until my area finally got covered by one of those grants a few months ago. I am super rural - like, I am literally surrounded by nationally protected forest and nothing else; it'snot a place I thought would ever be included in those grant locations. It was, though, and I now have Gigabyte internet with no cap, with VOIP, for $74.98 a month. If I'm not using WiFi, I get an actual gig of download speed. If I'm on wifi, it's usually between 600-900MB.

Up until recently, we paid Centurylink about $150 a month for two lines into the house. Each line maxed out at 0.75MB download speed and 0.23 MB upload speed. We needed two lines to even be able to function. Almost 20 years of this, with no other options besides Hughesnet. We tried them for a little while; their equipment cost a fortune, it was about$150 a month, the speed was nearly as bad and they had a 200MB A MONTH CAP. We had to turn off images for websites in order to not go over the cap. Previous to 2004, I lived in a very rural part of NY. We had high speed internet for $69 a month, no cap. I can't remember the speed, but I remember that it took 3 minutes to download a full sized movie. 20 YEARS AGO the internet was better, and cheaper!

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago
[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 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

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[-] jengus@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Our local fiber (1000/1000) is truly unlimited and just had a price decrease from $120 to $100. Never had an ISP do that before!

[-] Reaper948@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Mediacom is the worst, data caps and low speeds for high prices, straight highway robbery. I'm lucky to have a local ISP with no data caps and a mostly reasonable price, cheaper than Mediacom at least. And soon to be fiber when they make it over to my neighborhood. They're currently in the process of running fiber to every neighborhood in my city.

[-] crate_of_mice@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe you should organise a community run ISP instead?

They're quite common where I live, although I don't use one myself. I still only pay 400sek for unlimited 500/500.

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[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

$70? In Australia I pay $85 for 75/20 unlimited.

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[-] kristoff@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

just out of interest .. somebody here on satellite? I am interested to know the prices for sat services out there?

[-] Tigbitties@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

This is almost started price in Canada

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[-] IverCoder@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh boy, you're still lucky with your data cap 🙂

Mine's ~90 Mbps down, ~35 Mbps up, 10 GB open access + 8 GB site-specific of your choice, you reload it weekly for $2.

There's also a 1 GB "Metaverse Go" bandwidth as well, I have no idea which sites are included in that because when I download updates for my Fedora laptop and download apps from Flathub, it uses that bandwidth.

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