The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes.
The latest version of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) FAQ on the grant program, released today, is a challenge to states considering laws that would force Internet providers to offer cheap plans to people who meet income eligibility guidelines. One state already has such a law: New York requires ISPs with over 20,000 customers in the state to offer $15 broadband plans with download speeds of at least 25Mbps, or $20-per-month service with 200Mbps speeds.
I pay $140/mo for ~300 down / 100 up. I found another provider with similar bandwidth for $50/mo, but I self-host a couple things, and they wouldn’t assign me an IPv6 prefix or allow port forwarding. Also, my son complained because his games had 70 ms ping on the less expensive provider.
Edit: I’m in a big city, I think it’s even worse in rural areas.
Wow. I live in Denmark and I pay 150 dollars every 4 months for 1Gb up and down.
You guys are getting scammed in the US.
In every possible thing, yes. US citizens are nothing but wallets and wage slaves for the rich.
Do you get billed every 4 months, or why frame it that way? Or is this a weird danish thing, like your numbers? :-)
I do get billed every 4 months yea.
US here, $70 for a gig up and down. (Which obviously never gets that fast. )
I’ve seen fiber for that price, but my house is like 3 miles away from the nearest fiber location (I have a co-worker that lives within that boundary).
If post-forwarding is an issue, you can always use a free VPN to reach your self-hosted services. Or if you want to keep them public, you can set up yourself a relay on AWS LightSail for less than 5$/month. Or if you want to save as much as possible you can use TailScale or CloudFlare’s Zero Trust network to self-host for free using their server as a relay.
I’ve been port forwarding for decades at this point. I just recently found out about tunneling your traffic through relays like that. Pretty neat stuff. Glad I can finally ditch my isp and switch to another without worrying about their port forwarding policies
$90/mo for 1Gbps up and down for me in a 30k town for me. I also have two fiber providers, one cable, and wireless as options. I realize I’m more of the exception than the rule. When I first moved here, 50Mbps cable was my only option.
How are they blocking port forwarding? Just put your own router in…
I already have my own router, but they do NAT from the modem with no way to switch to bridge mode.
Ah, fucking assholes.
I had to call my ISP because I specifically requested a modem only, no router, and they gave me one of their stupid locked-down combo units.
If you bitch enough, they will relent.
This was T-Mobile 5G internet, and they only had one modem available. I never bothered looking for my own 5G modem (assuming T-Mobile would even allow BYOD), because my son was already complaining about his ping. And even then, they would still only assign a single IPv6 instead of the full /64 prefix I get with my current provider.
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