https://www.europesays.com/uk/189251/ Stay Connected to Internet & TV During Your Move #4K #bandwidth #broadband #bundle #CableTV #Email #HighSpeedInternet #home #installation #Internet #InternetSpeed #ISP #moving #OnlineGaming #Relocating #SmartAppliances #streaming #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #Video #wifi #WorkFromHome
I've stopped working with obsolete xDSL network devices. I have an ISP Fiber who installed Fiber to the CURB and Fiber to the Home simultaneously just to make money. They installed the obsolete fiber to the curb systems to milk people into making them think that xDSL is a way for the future.
Meanwhile on quite stable 4G Networks they give the speeds that you see in the screenshot. I can reach more than 40 MBit per second! I would rather be ad hoc on the internet, then have a slow obsolete 10 MBit connection over two copper wires.
I am finally enjoying the internet again when it comes down to speed
Liberals: We Are Demanding Warrantless Wiretapping Because Fentanyl
The Liberal party wants law enforcement to spy on everything you do without pesky oversight? Why? Because Fentanyl.
https://www.freezenet.ca/liberals-we-are-demanding-warrantless-wiretapping-because-fentanyl/
Lawful Access Resurrected Again After Bill C-2 Gets Tabled
Canadian privacy nemesis, Lawful Access, appears to be back. It's part of what is now known as Bill C-2.
https://www.freezenet.ca/lawful-access-resurrected-again-after-bill-c-2-gets-tabled/
#ISP settles with record labels that demanded mass termination of Internet users
Internet service provider #FrontierCommunications agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by major record labels that demanded mass disconnections of broadband users accused of #piracy.
#copyright #dmca #riaa #recordlabels
After #SupremeCourt loss, ISPs ask #Trump admin to block state #affordability laws
#scotus #isp #greed
Recent email from my ISP advising of yet another price rise imminent, for my shitty #FTTN fraudband service. The new price is still affordable, yet i am incensed by it, given my 700m of rotted copper gives me 37/7 on a very good day, but more typically ~32/5.
So i've decided to challenge it by doing my first bit of active competition-hunting in many years, with a view to actually changing if i find decent looking candidates. I realise i shan't get any better performance til #FttP becomes available here, but getting a much lower price given the shit speeds is now desirable as a point of stubborn principle.
Initial look... two well-known comparator sites:
Another time i shall do my detailed research into both these, but my initial #AskFedi question is... who the hell are Flip and Buddy? Anyone here with experience of them pls?
@arstechnica@mastodon.social
I grew up dirt poor, but I also grew up where the Internet started, and the 1st ISP went live (Massachusetts, USA). Despite the Internet starting here, our infrastructure sucks.
We were still using Dial-up when people were bragging about T1 and T3 lines (which we never saw), and it took decades before DSL came here, and decades more before Cable Internet came here. I am 44 years old, and finally, Fiber Optic Internet is at last available. It also took that long for us to have choices, because the ISPs act like oligopolies - They're like monopolies, only legal, agreeing not to compete and keeping their prices nearly identical.
I am no longer that dirt poor child, and things are generally better now.
But the one thing I knew, growing up poor, was how important Internet access was. How the difference between the house across the street and yours, meant you had affordable Internet, or not, despite living in the same town and using the same ISP.
Because American ISPs will price by zone (not just town), and that is why often the cable company will not quote you a price until you enter your address. The wealthier neighborhoods could oddly get affordable Internet, while the poorer communities, were likely quoted sometimes double the price. So when "Little Adam" or "Little Sarah" needed to do their homework, their income may have played a role twice as much.
Today, you need Internet access to live. - That is not a metaphor or an overexaggerated statement. You want a job? The application is online. Even the small, local "Mom and Pop" type businesses, have moved online. You want to pay your bills? That is online too, and if you do not have internet, it will cost you more to pay your bill by the phone or by mail (many places charged you a "convince fee" for sending a check, or speaking to someone). You want to better communicate with your doctor, that is online too. You need something from your healthcare provider, it is going to be online. People need the Internet for a lot more than posting cute cat videos, today!
The big problem with America's Internet is our ISPs seldom invest in their infrastructure, while also segregating communities, and making it harder for people to, just, live. They have been doing it for years (decades). And now, when they finally are forced to make things fairer, they want to cry foul.
I have lived outside the United States of America. It is not like this. And when ISPs say they're unable to make a profit, I cannot help but think, what they really mean, is they can no longer conduct segregation and class warfare on people.
#Isp #Internet #CableInternet #DslInternet #FiberInternet
Resources got restocked:
- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany
@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :) We're currently hosting ~ 600 free VPS instances.
Peeps in #Australia. Are there any realtime or up to date latency benchmarks for internet connections, particularly #nbn #FTTN and #FTTP?
Alternatively what kind of latency are you getting and what #ISP and connection type are you connected to?
@destiny yes, but that deoends on your ISP, Internet Setup, Firewall and how shoved your NAT table is.
If you have proper Dual-Stack (static #IPv4 + #IPv6 /64 subnet) then you should be able to get that.
If you have #IPv4only and/or #CGNAT then this will throttle you just like when you have an #ISP that doesn't properly #peer or even acts as #racketeer towards other providers and sabotages #P2P like #KT from #SouthKorea.
I was able to max oit the wifi at my university for downloads in the past...
#WISPAPALOOZA 2025 by @wispanews registration
opens soon: https://www.wispaevents.org/wpalooza25/
We will be at the booth no. 630, see you there!
How the fuck are large #ISP still using #uceprotect for #email #blacklists ?
I'm looking at you #bigpond
I'd send an email to your postmaster if I through you would ever read it 
It's a literal extortion scam!
Weil mich #YouTube mal wieder mit #VPN-#Werbung netvt eine Frage:
Ich persönlich sehe ja keinen #privatsphare -vorteil darin meinen gesamte Internettraffic anstatt beim #ISP bei einem kommerziellen #vpn Anbieter zu hinterlassen und dafür auch noch Geld zu zahlen.
Warum sollte ich dem denn mehr vertrauen als #Telekom oder #Vodafone ?
Anders würde es bei einem #Gemeinnützigen #VPN aussehen der von einer vertrauenswürdigen #NGO betrieben wird.
Das wäre mir dann auch Geld wert.
Gibt es sowas?
Comcast Xfinity notified me that they changed my unlimited Internet plan to $25 per 50 GB unless I upgrade my plan. I was already paying $138 per month for 1 Gb download and ~100 Mb upload.
I just switched to EarthLink, which is a wrapper around local AT&T fiber optics. I'm now paying $80 per month for a symmetric 1 Gb optical connection with an option to upgrade to symmetric 5 Gb for $200 per month.
I'm grateful I have options here in Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Gee Aussie Broadband is good. Was having a few issues last night getting my Mattermost server in EC2 to send email via their SMTP server.
I got through to someone in seconds on live chat, who knew a tonne about mail configuration, and fixed a SASL configuration issue on their end that was causing authentication to fail.
In an age of AI "help" chatbots, and hour-long phone wait queues, Aussie Broadband stands out for offering genuinely useful customer support 
