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.

        • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oof. imagine the network loads for something like that. i believe you. ive seen all kinds of runs. I always look for the cisco/ubiquiti boxes on the ceilings being run just over POE and i say to myself. "those routers are like 300-500 dollars a pop. anyone could just rip it off the ceiling tile, pop the ethernet and done.

    • drudoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Was in Kissimmee. We were forced into the apartment complex internet plan and it only included WiFi. No Ethernet ports in the apartment just a WiFi unit where you had to approve MAC addresses for access.

      Super frustrating. Ended up buying a router, that would bridge the WiFi and offer Ethernet to my Pi and desktop.