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[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
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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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[–] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In Switzerland you get unlimited 10 Gbit/s for 50 bucks.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I hate you, congrats!

In Canada we have to give our firstborn to a telecommunication monopoly for somewhat OK internet.

[–] Jmr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what the hell

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And /48 IPv6 subnet included! As it should be!

[–] kristoff@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

They're just preparing for one day when you have your own personal swarm of nano bots

[–] Dettweiler42@lemmyonline.com 3 points 1 year ago

Home internet data caps WERE a thing of the past when Obama appointed Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman, who then pushed rulings to classify ISPs as a public utility and started enforcing net neutrality. Companies that didn't play ball started getting fined until they fell in line. Being a former executive for a major ISP, he was very familiar with the anti-competitive practices and underhanded tricks those companies had been using for years; and he used those practices against them to finally make some pro-consumer progress for internet access in the US.

Then, Trump came in and put Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC (no joke, my phone kept auto correcting his name to Shit Pie). Anyways, Shit Pie tore down those rulings and undid all those years of progress as part of the Trump administration's anti-Obama initiative. Even though it was proven time and again that what he did was directly against public opinion, and that ISPs were flooding the public commentary with bot posts(some even made by dead people); Shit Pie continued to meme about himself and drink from an obnoxiously large Reese's coffee mug while doing so. At this point, every provider of internet services has added back data caps in the US, and they have continued to increase their prices to maintain that 99.9% profit margin. They've also locked down more areas to prevent municipal broadband services from forming, and they're even pushing for legislation to prevent them from ever happening.

The current administration has done absolutely nothing. In fact, they've been so unremarkable, I have no idea who is in charge of the FCC, and I don't feel like looking it up.

[–] secretfoxtail@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I am very thankful that I do not live in the United States. Even in Canada where telecommunications services are notoriously expensive, data caps on cellphone plans are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Carriers like Freedom Mobile will simply throttle your speed instead of charging you a boatload of money once you pass your monthly data "limit".

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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AP WiFi Access Point
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
Plex Brand of media server package
VPN Virtual Private Network

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Dude... The US is doing it wrong. SE Asia. 1Gbps symmetrical, unlimited, unrestricted. ~14US$.

[–] Ryan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Thailand I'm getting 400Mbps upload and download with unlimited data.

It costs about 300฿/mo ≈ $8.7/mo

[–] GatoB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But you also get paid less

[–] Ryan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Although I agree that people get paid less here, I highly doubt that it costs an ISP in the US 8x more to transfer data than an ISP in Thailand.

I'm not really trying to argue that Thai internet is cheap, it's that internet elsewhere is exorbitantly expensive.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I'm in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Not eligible yet for the fttp upgrade? Hang in there mate.

I got upgraded from fttn to fttp at the start of this year.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

U should come to australia. Our internet is worse than most 3rd world countries. And u need a business plan to get symmetric upload thats so slow i doubt u could hit a 1tb cap if u tried.

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get unlimited 10Gbps symmetric fiber for $40/month. One of the only affordable things in the San Francisco Bay Area, lol

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Off topic: I see that there is "9 more replies" and I am unable to expand the thread... could someone please offer guidance?

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I see them!

Here's a screenshot:

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It works now? I am going to read the lemmy.org guide and hopefully mend this. Thank you for replying, your instance has a comfortable ui.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My screenshot is from the "Boost" mobile app on Android :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

https://upvote.au/comment/949970 - I was referring to your instance. It is yours right? It does feel counterintuitive to use a closed source client to access an open-source network. If I may ask, how did you make the decision to use boost for lemmy?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Remember the net neutrality regulations that douchebag scrapped then opted to make a shitty YouTube video about? I do.