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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    My parents in rural Washington pay $70/month for 10Mbps down. I’m not sure the ISP bothers with a cap.

    I have CenturyLink 940/940 here in Seattle with no cap for $65. The alternative is Wave which has a cap and you have to deal with introductory price bullshit.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Down in Oregon, I get either 100mbps through CenturyLink for $65 or 1.2gbps down/30mbps up from Comcast for $130 (with the $30 extra to remove the data cap). I would kill for a symmettical connection even if it were only 500/500.

    • trafficnab@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m stuck with Comcast 1200/30 with a 1.2TB cap for $100/mo, it’s this or DSL