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Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector
bigwophh writes "Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt — Senior Policy Director for Google — announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs."
FTA:
What:
Throttling detector
Where:
The interwho
Why:
Because ISPs like to throttle to give Papa Joe and his daughters a healthy feed of myspace and rain hellfire upon Torrenting Sam and his goon squad of seeders
How:
No details
When:
Who knows?
My UID is prime... is yours?
"We were pretty well known on the internet. We were pretty popular. We had some funds available."
Still, good on them for coming to a fork in the road - one to eviltown and the other to goodville - and choosing wisely.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
And watch the ISPs throttle this download to 1 byte/minute
You're behind the times. They already offer internet. I use it in my home; let's me browse /. while I'm on the toilet.
I'm sure there's stuff in the legalese of the contract you signed which says that that number's an upper limit and you should just be happy they give you any bandwidth at all, you filty customer.
It's not really a bad thing, either.
I mean, they can't possibly guarantee you a certain speed. Try explaining to Joe Perv that even though he has the capability of 20 MbPS, the server that has his Chinese industrial accident porn can only deliver at 20 bPS.
There's enough reasons to sling vitriol at unethical ISPs, but advertising "up to [speed]" isn't one of them.
Sure it works, but the bandwidth is crap.
You have made this entire thread worthwhile.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
... use Google TiSP instead!
-- Lattyware (www.lattyware.co.uk)
Here in Belgium and other European countries, bandwidth is not throttled but capped. I can Bittorrent as much as I want, but I fall back to 1-3 kB/s as soon as I hit the 100 gigabyte barrier. This system is waaaay less underhand or hypocrite. FYI, I'm at 30.7 GB this month. It resets the day after tomorrow.
:)
Free market capitalism, eh? It's just crazy enough to work. We should try that here.
Stop-Prism.org: Opt Out of Surveillance
Maybe the somebody needs to clear the logs.
Or flush the streams...
eh... I'm tired of all these shitty jokes.
And Google Zeitgeist is going to be raising a few eyebrows next month...
[FUCK BETA]
You have crappy humor.
That was probably the funniest racist troll I've seen so far. Also, that people even get offended is even funnier.