[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege

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.

DRx,
@DRx@lemmy.world avatar

pay $180/month for 1gbit down/100mbit up and it is unlimited… It would be $130 for 1.75TB, but I wanted unlimited and that is an extra $50/month

kaupas24,
kaupas24 avatar

Sorry for bumping this, but why do you have such a big difference in upload and download speeds? Here in Norway the difference is 1-2 mbps. Why 900mbps?

DRx,
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So unless you live in an area with fiber, asymmetrical speeds are pretty typical… I’m not sure if it is because it’s all coax so there are infrastructure limitations? But it’s actually gotten faster because 6 months ago my upload was only 30 mbit/s.

Once fiber is in my area I’ll switch to that, but symmetrical will add more cost…but of course it will lol

SirMaple_,

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).

theoc,

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 www.koodomobile.com/en/rate-plans?INTCMP=KM_HDD_2…

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

grue,

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.

LazaroFilm,
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And France gets 5Gbps for €30 per month or 8Gbps for €40 per month. I’m in the US now and really miss free.fr as my ISP

Awwab,
Awwab avatar

What average consumer has hardware that's actually capable of using more than 1Gbps?

uis,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

2.5GbE and 5GbE is now in average consumer hardware. Also 10GbE router costs about 100$.

oktoberpaard,

Average none, though 2.5 Gbps is getting more and more common and WiFi is catching up too. You could max out multiple slower devices at the same time without hitting the limit of your uplink. I don’t have a use case for that, so I’d only upgrade from my current 1 Gbps to higher speeds if the price is comparable. That doesn’t mean that others don’t have a use case for it.

theoc,

Most decent to higher end desktops have at least 2.5 Gbps. Even a laptop/desktop that doesn’t can get a 2.5 Gbps usb-c to ethernet dongle for like $30-$40.

Higher end access points also have 2.5 Gbps. I have no issue maxing out my 1.5 Gbps (ISP over provisions the lines so I get 1.7 gbps) on Steam. Also keep in mind that when you have a faster connection with multiple devices/people, each device/person might be able to pull 1 Gbps. As in if you have 2 Gbps internet service even 2 older computers that only have a gigabit internet connection, each could get the full gigabit to them.

If you’re the type of person that only uses wifi, you won’t see a difference between gigabit and multigigabit connections but plenty of people have ethernet throughout their homes and they make use of faster than gigabit connections.

grue,

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

LazaroFilm,
@LazaroFilm@lemmy.world avatar

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.

buzz,
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I had the 1.25 TB a month cap all the time till earlier this year when all of a sudden they ran a symmetric fiber here. Eastern us, not rural at all. I went with 500mbps/50$ a month - dont really need more for myself, but the lack of a cap is just amazing as I ran against the limit so many times before.

conner5,

I pay 40€ /month for 20 Down & 10 Mbit/s but unlimited Traffic…

rx480,
@rx480@lemmy.world avatar

lmfao its 40usd for 50/20 in australia

Gryxx,

I know i’m privileged paying 70 PLN (~17 USD) for symmetrical gigabit link, but holy shit man, that picture hurts.

blendertom,

Yikes. Only 20mbps upload (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

ArmokGoB,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c151b82d-3d34-40ae-a549-216401fe0249.webp

norav,

Consider yourself lucky, I pay around 100 euros for a 100Mb wich does not even reach 40 in download at times. (Italy)

irotsoma,
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Yeah Comcast has been doing it for a while.

Meanshadows35,
@Meanshadows35@lemmy.world avatar

They really started pushing it right before COVID. Then backed off a bit and now again are really pushing it.

Landrin201,
@Landrin201@lemmy.ml avatar

The FCC is still to my knowledge taking public comments about data caps:

consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests

May be worth people here commenting about how they are ridiculous

rurb,

Look into fixed wireless or 4G/5G home internet. Fixed wireless is sometimes exactly what you need in spots like that. It is not 4G or 5G, sometimes it is just long range WiFi or other lax spectrum.

0ddysseus,

Where I live in Australia, 1 hour out of Sydney, I would pay that for 1/3 the data at 1/3 the speed. Went with starlink instead.

Da_Boom,
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I would totally go with starlink, except I really don’t want to support musk with my money.

Sure the idea is good, but if a competitor were to come out I’d rather go for that. Same thing with Tesla.

Plus where I live in Adelaide we have the ability to get FTTP if we paid them to run the fibre from the curb to the house, but our current 100/40 plan is adequate for our needs.

That said if it’s the only option, I understand that.

kd637_mi,

I was really confused reading the OP at first, wondering what the problem was, then I realised it was just my Australia brain.

Tschuuuls,

Not that you will read 300+comments, but cancel and go with starlink. They probably call you back and offer you an uncapped plan :D

HawlSera,

Datacaps? On Home PC? I don’t even datacaps on my phone and I leave in bumfuck nowhere North Carolina

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