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.
Yikes. Only 20mbps upload (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
Lobbying captured local states’ law (by ISP’s) and so some places can petition to have their own internet at cities and have, but these laws sometimes prevent that. But we should still try to petition to get a city based internet. It’s worth it.
I live in México and pay 1119 MXN (≈ 65 USD) per month for 600/100. It also includes TV channels and a phone line. I’m satisfied with my ISP. They’ve never had an outage and stuff just works!
Shit dude, I pay €20 for synchronous 1Gb/s.
I pay $50 / mo for 100 down, 5 up 1.25tb cap. I feel ya. It’s another $50 just for no cap.
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I have luckily never heard about data caps in Scandinavia except for mobile broadband.
Do they even exist at all, here?
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My first (fast) internet connection was 1 Mbit.
We had 1gb to download per month. This cap disappeared when more competitors showed up though (i had that cap around … 2001)
I havnt seen a data cap for internet connections since. I am not aware of any either. Except for mobile phones. Though, they also have unlimited data for those , if you want. (I have. Just so i never have to worry about it ever again)
I had a friend years ago that had a cap, but that was literally the only one I’ve heard of in my life here (Sweden)
I’d be so screwed on that plan. According to my router, I’ve downloaded 5311 GB in the last 30 days, and uploaded 399 GB. Sure doesn’t feel like it in hindsight, but some family members are on YouTube all day every day, others constantly downloading new games on Steam, and my Plex media Server and *arr apps just chews through data.
This makes me seethe and rage and turns my piss to vinegar.
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.
I have Comcast now and it’s okay in my area (no data cap scam in my area), but probably only because Verizon is available across the street. I had Verizon before I moved and it was faster but they completely forgot that they needed to implement IPv6.
Xfinity also lied and told me there wouldn’t be a cancellation fee since I wasn’t under contract (so I thought) and I was moving to an area that they didn’t serve.
Turns out when I had called in a year prior with a question they “renewed” the contract without my approval and there WAS a cancellation fee. But never told me. Never sent me a bill.
Didn’t know anything until I got a collections letter for $400. Called them up and they had the notes on my account from the three different reps I spoke to over the phone to confirm there was no fee. Because there were so many conflicting reports online I wanted to be sure. They did not give a fuck and pretty much admitted their reps lied.
So fuck Xfinity.
I’m in Eugene, OR, on the I-5 corridor, and am capped at 1200MB a month. It’s bullshit. And for $70.
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.
Datacaps? On Home PC? I don’t even datacaps on my phone and I leave in bumfuck nowhere North Carolina
EU - 30 USD 400/200 MBbs fiber no data cap here :)
20€ a month for 200/20 on cable with unlimited data. Im expecting 500/200 after I move to fiber this month and hope <30€. Damn some of you pay a lot 😮
Bud, I pay $60/mo for 30 down, 1.5 up 🙃
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