Welcome to Mound, MN: home of the $249.99 DSL broadband plan

I used to want my hometown to get the Google Fiber trial. Now i'm hoping that Mound, MN wins. :P

5... GIGS?<p>I probably sync that much back and forth in source code garbage and sample data sets between work and my house. Not to mention the fact that all of my video consumption is streaming now (Amazon or Netflix via Tivo).<p>That's... wow.

My friends make fun of me for paying $120/month for 6M Speakeasy broadband.<p>But guess who never gets letters saying that he's using too much bandwidth or to shut off his SSH server.

This is one of the reasons I left Verizon--I was in a rural area they were selling off to Frontier and I found out plenty of rumors about them. Plus, performance intermittently dropped for stupid reasons (rumors were, Verizon was taking out all the "good" equipment so they could keep it).

I just checked my Tomato router and so far this month (posting this on 4/15/10) I've used 8.99 GB. I hope Comcast's secret rate limit is &#60; 20GB/month.<p><pre><code> Date Download Upload Total 2010-04 8.21 GB 0.78 GB 8.99 GB</code></pre>

Out of curiosity what are costs of unlimited plans in USA and how hard is it to get those in more rural areas?<p>Just want to compare it to my current connection which is unlimited traffic, 460KBs down /~60KBs up for €19.99/month. (It also includes a landline which isn't in use - it's the only provider in my area and cheapest offer they have)<p>Edit: Wording

I would read the article, but then I might feel guilty for ignoring arstechnica's ads.

TonkaToys used to be made in Mound! (Very important tidbit, I know...)