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.

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I have 1gbps symmetrical for €17.95 in the Netherlands.

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Wow that’s a good price. I pay 64.75 Swiss Franks for that.

But at least it’s a cool little ISP serving me. they offer 10 and 25 Gbit/s for the same price, just a bit more setup fee, because the transceivers are obviously more expensive. I’ve just not taken the plunge to upgrade my router and switches.

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Yeah it’s a small, local ISP. I love it. They only serve a small area, but therefore they behave like a local business with real people instead of a faceless corporation.

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