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.

  • art101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Where the hell in the UK are you? I’m in the North and pay £26 for 60mbps but get more like 70 due to how close I am to the street cabinet though I haven’t even got copper cable here, just crappy aluminium that is so old I think Alexander Graham Bell himself fitted them.

    • CatTrickery@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m in the north-west but I’m limited to BT because nobody else has cables down yet. A different company claims to be fitting FttP round here in a few months though.

      • art101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Similar issue here, full fibre roll out is estimated to be complete in 2025.

        I’m just outside Newcastle on the coast and could get Virgin but my neighbours have had a nightmare with it.

        They only rolled out their fibre about three months ago so there might be issues with that