Guest Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 New York State just passed a law requiring ISPs to offer $15 broadband WWW.THEVERGE.COM Internet should become a lot more affordable in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost_MH Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 So, does this mean ISPs will now start charging folks $35/mo to rent their $50 cable modems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 5 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said: So, does this mean ISPs will now start charging folks $35/mo to rent their $50 cable modems? And then change which modems they support every month. Checkmate, suckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Its just for low income families, you can only get it if you apply for certain programs like free school lunches ect... Also sets a floor of 25 mbps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleronin Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 So $15/month with a 5GB usage cap, after which it will be $10 for every 50GB used right? I mean there are so many ways they can go about cheating this system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 1 minute ago, Littleronin said: So $15/month with a 5GB usage cap, after which it will be $10 for every 50GB used right? I mean there are so many ways they can go about cheating this system. Do data caps work if you use a VPN? I've never tried it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleG Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 7 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said: Do data caps work if you use a VPN? I've never tried it before. Yes All the data goes through your ISP server, VPN just encrypts that data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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