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.

@SupraMario@lemmy.world
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It’s why you just get a business line, usually just slightly more expensive, and you get 99.9% SLA uptime and unlimited cap.

@theoc@lemmy.world
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You shouldn’t need a business line to get reliable, fast, unlimited internet.

@SupraMario@lemmy.world
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O %100 agreed. Just suggesting a way around the bullshit cap they impose.

@Jmr@lemmy.world
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And a static IP, and the ability to do whatever you want with the fiber

@SupraMario@lemmy.world
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Yep a static IP is great for hosting dedicated servers

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