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.

  • Colorcodedresistor@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Everyone Here Thinking Ookla is what speed their internet really is at. 'why are my steam games only downloading at 20mbs when i have 1gb internet?" well. your ISP charges for download and has to pay for upload. thats why you always get dog shit upload compared to down. but then steam has millions of people downloading from them so that’s billed to them, they arent going to give every mfer a 1gb download cap, hell no. there would be download whales and data hoarders clogging up the bandwidth more than they already do…tldr, your connection is always metered.

      • Colorcodedresistor@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        they are Capping your Speed and your Total Rate. its Both you are looking at one side of the coin, im talking about the entire Coin not just one side of it

      • Colorcodedresistor@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You missed it entirely. yeah he is capped at 1.5tb but he…ALSO wont be getting those listed speeds because they are also Metered. Both. Both is true.