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.

  • SirMaple_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    621·
    2 years 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).

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m suddenly more motivated to do my French lessons on Duolingo now.

        • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          I know right! Free.fr was a real disruptor. They fought the government to open telecom to private companies (it used to be France Telecom only which is gov owned) then they worked with the gov to create a fiber network that can be used my multiple ISP. So no running parallel lines from separate companies, they all create, maintain and share the same network all over the country. Before that, they started as the first free dialup internet service. You would call a number, and connect. You were paying with ads. They also were the first DSL speed, first TV over DSL, first FTTH, first VoIP, and they also have a cell phone network. And the prices are forcing all the other companies to align. We seriously need free.for in the US.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years 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’m not convinced mobile deserves to have caps at all, either!

      As far as I’m concerned, there’s no reason to limit the amount of data transfer except in times of congestion, and I also don’t see any reason the amount of data transferred during un-congested times should have any bearing on who gets throttled.

    • theoc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      You’re way overpaying. I pay $40 for 1.5 Gbps with Bell FTTH. Give them a call and say it’s too expensive and see what they can do for you. Or tell them Rogers (if they’re in your area) offered you 1.5gbps for $60 and ask if they can beat that.

      As for mobile, you should look at new plans. $39 gets you 20 GB $50 gets you 40 GB. Seems like plenty of data imo https://www.koodomobile.com/en/rate-plans?INTCMP=KM_HDD_2023_Plans_RatePlans_40gbfor45_ROC_MBSK

      Best time to get a mobile plan is Black Friday, should be even better deals by then.