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.

  • antizero99@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, this doesn’t sound right. I’ve never seen a modem without an ethernet port. I’ve had everything from Verizon dsl in Tampa years ago to various cable providers including twc and now spectrum and as I said, every modem had an ethernet port. You can also add your own router even if it ends up adding an extra nat layer.

    • drudoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      We didn’t even have a modem, just a locked down AP with no control. All controlled through the apartment complex.

    • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      It sounds like an apartment building restriction, not a Spectrum restriction. The building wasn’t run for ethernet so they just put in wifi with a single modem for the building and called it a day.