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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. Re:Yeah, automated tweeting to PR mouthpiece... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've noticed that some ISPs sometimes cheat on these tests anyway. For example, my connection sometimes benchmarks at 150Mb/sec down, but actually there is massive packet loss on some protocols (e.g. VPN, seems basically anything UDP related is screwed except for DNS) and downloads never get anywhere near.

    I'm sure my ISP would call it traffic management, and it just so happens that speedtest.net servers are heavily optimized for throughput and low ping times.

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