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Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?
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Umm, my home internet has a 50GB per month limit. Can't complain much though, it's cheap at literally $1 a day, and I'm not a gamer or online streamer.
Found the American. In France that would be a huge ripoff compared to what the other providers have to offer. Like, literally any VDSL offer is around 30€/month (or under) and no caps
Good thing, because some games would take up all of that just to download and install.
For ~$30 a month, that's a complete and utter rip-off.
Even here in Neuland Germany you get at least decent internet with no caps for that price.
50GB a month though?? You don't use any video streaming services at all? What do you use for media?
I do browse through YT videos, but I don't bother watching full length movies. Honestly, I've lost interest in watching newer movies, seems like a waste of time to me. However, I do enjoy educational and scientific content.
Wow I go through 50GB in less than a day. Sometimes an hour.
That's more than $1.50 per Gigabyte.
When you download a game from Steam, most games you literally pay more for the data than for the game.
Even when you pirate, you pay like $15 for a BluRay quality movie
You'd be dumbfounded to see what I've been able to accomplish using my connection. Terabytes of games archived, I just didn't have to download nor upload them myself.
How is 1€/day cheap for such limited home Internet? I guess it might depend on where you are, but unless you are in the middle of nowhere that seems expensive.
Here in Germany for example, which really isn't known for its cheap internet, I can find options that offer 100Mbit Flatrates for 20€/month.
$50/mo for internet is a relatively low rate for the US unless you're lucky enough to live in one of the few places with municipal internet.
My German friends and family don't believe me when I tell them how expensive internet and phone is in the US. They all think it's expensive in Germany. Having said that, there are some big differences in take home pay.
I ain't even talking about the internet speed, I'm talking about the data cap. And $1 a day is about as cheap as it gets in my area.
That's not a very good approach to assess prices
Where even has that sort of plan anymore? Are you really rural American?
Guess so. The installation tech had to test like 18 sets of dead phone lines before managing to find one live pair to even connect the internet.