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.

  • badamszAEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    2000/2000 Mbit fiber without a cap for $95/mo. in Maine, US.

    This does feel a bit surreal though as prior to this my options were 3/.5 Mbit DSL for $75/mo. (bonding wasn’t an option, no plans by ISP to upgrade), then 25/10 Mbit fixed wireless for $95 /mo. from a local provider (which worked when it felt like it and then was undergoing “maintenance” for weeks at a time making it unusable), then paying Spectrum a $5500+ ransom to run Cable down my driveway and then ultimately pay $115/mo. for 300/20 Mbit. Spectrum didn’t have a cap due to the Charter -> TWC acquisition consent decree but I’m sure it was coming after that expired.

    When fiber came to town everything else suddenly got cheaper but screw them, they kept raising the rates and fees when there wasn’t any meaningful competition. Fidium didn’t even charge me an install fee and I’m not under a contract. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • dutchkimble@lemy.lolEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      So do your router/switches/access points/cabling etc support 2000? What about the devices’ lan ports? Curious as to to how 2000 works for home network infrastructure

      • badamszAEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, my core network is 10 Gig and I have my desktop computers connected at either 10 or 2.5 Gig. So that’s full speed. Wireless is limited to just 1 gig for the most part. I do have 1x 6e access point which my couple of compatible devices can use and get faster than gig downloads.

        It was nice during the initial rollout before they had QoS set up. I was getting over 4 Gbit symmetric but that didn’t last for too long.