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.

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m slightly baffled by all this. I’m scheduled to get my line upgraded to be able to handle 100mbps in 2025 and I’m currently able to get 48mbps which costs me about USD55/mo. I only got the upgrade from 8mbps in 2019 (stupid conservative govt). While I’m looking forward to the better connection, I don’t really find a problem with 50 at the moment. I work from home, I stream multiple instances of media, I torrent things sometimes. I think I’m on an cap of 1tb but tbh I’d have to check if that’s what it still is, I haven’t looked for a long time.