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.
I'm in a "third world country" that have 2.4/1.2Gb asymmetric fiber (fiber technical limitations so not entirely ISP fault) priced at $12.59 (or $8.39 if using yearly bundle).
No data caps.
No hidden fees (they even gives you free stuffs if using same sim card as their ISP).
Net neutrality.
Pirate on the seven seas without ever getting notices, no VPN required causes ISP don't care.
You can choose whatever ISP you want.
The only limitation of that bundle is that you use the same cable as other users so you can only get max speed when really no one using.
Yes!! They're the best. I switched to Sonic as soon as they rolled out in my area. Availability (or future availability) of Sonic was one of the things I looked for when buying a house.
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?