Finally someone big on the side of the “little guy.”

Posted at 7:54 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by RT (Panzer Time!)

Even though this is not, in any way, a “hack” I do appreciate it being posted

Posted at 8:52 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by BigBalls

My isp must be throttling, all my speed tests are low like under 800 kbit/sec (100KB/s), but if i run a torrent or 2 i can get over 2600 kbit/sec (325KB/s).

Posted at 9:09 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by Joel

AT&T throttles.

Speed tests read 1.5mb/sec.
Actual world speed is a tenth that.

Go figure.

Posted at 11:35 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by LexicalConverter

this is very interesting.
its not a hack but if you want a hack only feed
use this
http://www.hackaday.com/category/daily/

not a hack

Posted at 3:40 am on Jun 15th, 2008 by not a hack

So after you figure out that you’re being throttled, is there anything you can do? This just seems like an exercise in futility to me. You can call up your ISP all day and tell them that Google says that they are blocking your packets and they’ll tell you it’s better for you.

While I appreciate the ingenuity in all this, I’d much rather see constantly evolving software that enables me to actually get around throttling instead of simply tell me what I can’t do anymore.

Posted at 9:49 am on Jun 16th, 2008 by Jeff

As an individual there’s much you can do is gather evidence the ISP aren’t providing their customers what the customers paid for. In the event the EFF can’t make use of it send it to Ralph Nader after Ralph looses in November. Ralph has been somewhat effective in helping the little guy over the years.

Posted at 11:13 pm on Jun 16th, 2008 by static