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How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk)

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-built-into-every-modem dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Contacting your internet provider to complain about slow browsing speeds is a tiresome chore which none of us enjoy, but one man has found a solution. He has configured a Raspberry Pi computer to automatically tweet a complaint to Comcast when his internet falls below 50Mbps, well below the 150Mbps he pays for. Wouldn't it be nice if ISPs wrote a rebate check each month to reflect the percentage of their promised throughput that was actually available?

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  1. Unbelievable! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This Raspberry Pi device has to have something really special inside! I am shocked.

  2. Yeah, automated tweeting to PR mouthpiece... by SeaFox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't it be nice if ISPs wrote a rebate check each month to reflect the percentage of their promised throughput that was actually available?

    I'd like a pony, too.

    #stupidstory #shouldstayinfirehose #thankstimmy