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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Right now in a lot of states Verizon has a monopoly on symmetrical internet service. I can’t ever switch ISPs because I can’t get 400/400 anywhere else.

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

God I wish we had that here. We are pretty much stuck with Comcast as the only option in many places since they were granted a monopoly for so long and the phone company never really expanded much. DSL is too slow in most places. Like I think I can only get 100/1 where I am now, but the last place I was at which was not exactly rural at all, was max 12m/768k. In my current place I do have one other option which is another cable provider. They offer the exact same as Comcast for slightly less money, but the primary reason I use them is because they don't have a monthly data cap. With my wife and I working from home plus our personal streaming, we would exceed the cap and have to pay a significant amount to increase it.

[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah ISPs are doing rural America really dirty. I didn’t even know monthly data caps existed with home internet until somebody from a rural town mentioned it. The only internet with monthly data caps around here is cell service and even then that’s usually unlimited now.

I do a lot of download and upload and one month I realized I accidentally moved like 30 TB that month.

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

Yeah I mean right now I'm in a relatively major city in the US (like 750K population), and the previous place I was just inside a major suburb (like 150K population). Rural is just plain screwed.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago
[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a home server which is used for quite a bit. Bunch of web apps including storage so downloading stuff to my phone over the internet means upload from my server, also multimedia too (That I actually pay for) via Plex, music, and podcasts. Photo hosting, sharing, and backups.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yaeh that would do it.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fios, it’s fiber.

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

I have Verizon 5g with the ultra wideband service. Tower is on a light post on the street corner, speeds max out around 700/70 for me. 400/400 sounds like Fios which is a fiber service.

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