I'm always bamboozled by the price of internet connection around the US and that there is a data limit one can upload or download. Perfect example of this milking while making service worse over time.

Other than the very early days of dial-up (where there were monthly limits on connect hours), my internet has always been without limit. Whether some form of dialup (POTS, ISDN, POTS with MLPPP), or DSL, VDSL, DOCSIS, or even LTE: I use what I want and the connection never slows down, and the bill stays the same.

There's an ISP that has completed a buried fiber rollout in my neighborhood as of a few days ago. I'll get plugged into that soon-enough; I got a card in the mail that says it's time to give them a call to schedule an install.

The price has stayed ~about the same over time for broadband; I've always paid about 50 bucks per month for always-on broadband. Sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less, but right around 50 bucks anyway. If I were to chart it with an inflation adjustment then the price would be trending downward.

Speeds, meanwhile: They trend upward. Quality of services improves.

A quarter of a century ago, my 860/160kbps DSL used to go down every morning promptly at 0200, stay down for about 10 minutes, and then come back with a different dynamic IP, and I was frequently on the phone with them about some issue or other.

The 500/20Mbps DOCSIS I have today is solid-enough that I can't think of any aspect worthy of complaint, and I've only made one phone call about it in the past 6 years.

I've always lived in the US. Am I doing it wrong?