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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Fri May 9, 2014, 03:40 PM May 2014

Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest

Lots of people are angry about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's Internet "fast lane" proposal that would let Internet service providers charge Web services for priority access to consumers. But one Web hosting service called NeoCities isn't just writing letters to the FCC. Instead, the company found the FCC's internal IP address range and throttled all connections to 28.8Kbps speeds.

"Since the FCC seems to have no problem with this idea, I've (through correspondence) gotten access to the FCC's internal IP block, and throttled all connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities.org front site, and I'm not removing it until the FCC pays us for the bandwidth they've been wasting instead of doing their jobs protecting us from the 'keep America's internet slow and expensive forever' lobby," NeoCities creator Kyle Drake wrote yesterday.





http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/web-host-gives-fcc-a-28-8kbps-slow-lane-in-net-neutrality-protest/

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Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter May 2014 OP
Well that should teach them a lesson! Thanks for this post! KoKo May 2014 #1
Sweet! Blue Owl May 2014 #2
HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!! WillyT May 2014 #3
Kick !!! WillyT May 2014 #4

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
1. Well that should teach them a lesson! Thanks for this post!
Fri May 9, 2014, 03:58 PM
May 2014

Have them see what it's like out there in USA for many of us already.

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