Poll: Does your ISP cap your internet connection?
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The state of Internet service in the United States is a bit of a mess. Unless you're a lucky soul in a Google Fiber neighborhood or a city with a municipal broadband provider, truly high-speed internet access can be hard to get. Even if one does luck out in an area where a high-speed connection is available, service providers can impose onerous restrictions on what customers can do with those tubes.
One such restriction is the dreaded usage cap, the dubious technical merits of which the industry freely admits . Exceed some pre-defined amount of data transfer in ...