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How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk)
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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Doesn't this miss the point? ISP's will carry on with this sort of behaviour if everyone just lies down and takes it.
The regulators should of course be doing more, but this sounds like a very useful way to at least increase the hassle the ISP must go through to provide less than a third of their advertised speed.
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?
They do if you want to negotiate a SLA that guarantees it, but that tends to be kinda expensive for the average residential customer. Otherwise you get best-effort.
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I don't get the RasPi hate in this thread. The Pi is clearly not intended for applications such as a high powered NAS, but I've got 3 RasPi 2's running OSMC\Kodi as media centers on my TVs and they do awesome streaming full HD movies and TV shows from my 16TB piecemeal server! Of course, once 4k becomes more prevalent, I'm going to have to make a change, but for now my family uses them happily on a daily basis. Does anyone complain when their hammer sucks at tightening screws? Use the right damn tool for the job!