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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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[-] faceula@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

100Mbps uncapped for £26 a month. Pretty happy with that.

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

£35 for symmetrical 1gbps. In practice, I get fairly stable ~850mbps either way but I reckon my router is the bottleneck rather than the actual line.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I personally feel hard done by if my connection drops below 500 Mbps I pay £50 a month for 1Gbps Which usually has about 300Mbps upload, but I don't really care about that

[-] shaked_coffee@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Country? Just for curiosity :)

[-] faceula@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hiya, I'm UK. Digital fibre rollout just happened in my area.

[-] Wildf1re@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

UK by the looks of it. I pay £17pm for 300mbps.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, OP is not getting a good deal.

[-] Wildf1re@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's Virgin. £34 credit each month, m250 package that got the free speed upgrade on top. Can't wait for other fibre providers to be in the area though. Always cancel and wait 24 hours for a call and get a cracking price 😁.

[-] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's good deal. What ISP? (Sounds like local ISP)

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It really isn't. If that's the UK that's a terrible deal you can pay half the amount with another provider and get three or four times the speed.

I assume OP is out in the middle of nowhere. Probably Wales.

[-] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Do you live in different UK than me? Never seen those price to speed before.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Virgin media right now are offering £50 per month for one gigabit. That's nine times the speed for less than half the price again.

Or Sky do £30 per month for 250 megabit.

Both are better options than what you're paying.

[-] Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Those are shit deal, can get full fiber 1gig for £30. £17 for 300mbps is definitely a good deal.

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