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Same where I live (Belgium), typical limit is around 150 gig.



Isn't Belgium notoriously bad when it comes to internet service? I remember hearing that a decade ago. 150GB is really low, unless it's some crazy cheap deal.

Deutsche Telekom has been making noises about instituting a cap at some point in the coming years, but it's still no problem to get 50Mbit VDSL with no long-term contract and no cap through resellers like 1&1.


> Isn't Belgium notoriously bad when it comes to internet service? I remember hearing that a decade ago. 150GB is really low, unless it's some crazy cheap deal.

Belgium is sooo backward for Internet. When I used to live there 7 years ago, prices were like twice the price of what you could get in France and my ADSL contract would only get 10 Gb per month, and I had to pay 5 euros to get 5 Gb more of data. The total ripoff. I'm so glad I left.


I was on the same plan. To top it all off the ISP was named Skynet.


For some reason, i can't reply on the comment below, so i'm doing it here.

We don't have crappy internet service when it comes to Telenet in terms of speed. The competition (DLS) is not stable on a lot of places.

All of them have caps on the internet and are very expensive when looking at our neighboured countries.

But then again, everything is expensive and everyone has a monopoly here in some sector...

The governement has financial intrest (stocks) in the telecom companies. So that won't change soon.


This is awful, 1 game on Steam can weight 40 Gb now (see Injustice), here in Russia I pay only 12.5 EU/month for 30 Mbit/s and unlimited traffic. I hope telecoms won't start reimplementing traffic caps.




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