Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.

Re:Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in th... by thrower123 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:06AM (#20164751)

Now I'm tempted to try this, and write a little daemon that runs every hour or two and kicks it off. I wonder if they would pick up on it.

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Re:Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in th... by caseyohara on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:29AM (#20165613)

Someone did something like that: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/comca...

> A Comcast customer who is dissatisfied with Internet speeds set up a Raspberry Pi to automatically tweet at Comcast each time speeds are much lower than advertised.

> "I pay for 150Mbps down and 10Mbps up," Reddit user AlekseyP wrote over the weekend. "The Raspberry Pi runs a series of speed tests every hour and stores the data. Whenever the down[load] speed is below 50Mbps the Pi uses a Twitter API to send an automatic tweet to Comcast listing the speeds. I know some people might say I should not be complaining about 50Mbps down, but when they advertise 150 and I get 10-30 I am unsatisfied."

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Re:Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in th... by milkytron on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:13AM (#20164812)

I was doing this for a very long time. I had a speedtest run on my NAS, saved the results to a csv, and then tweet them at verizon. a few others have written similar scripts, it’s very interesting having that historical data, and Verizon reps on twitter actually tried talking to the bot.

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Re:Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in th... by tombert on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:44AM (#20165155)

Do you happen to still have that script lying around?

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Re:Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in th... by vageli on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:19AM (#20164885)

Some network gear has this as a feature.

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