So this guy seems to have programmed his Raspberry Pi to complain/spam Comcast every time his internet slows down. Every time his connection drops under 2/3rds slower than what it should be. It tweets automatically to the Comcast Twitter page when it drops under 50mbps down.
I like this personally. I wonder how many people would do this if the guy is willing to share the setup, and the software programmed. Full link below.
My first topic created so if I placed it in the wrong place sorry :x
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Clever idea. I think though that Comcast has their speed as "not guaranteed". So, legally speaking, there is nothing they have to do. However, if enough people get a hold of this and their Pis spam the Twitter or CS email, then it might prompt them to monitor their speeds a bit better.
[ pokes comcast with a long stick ... repeatedly ]
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At the very least it would be interesting to see how Comcast would react with all that spam :P Yeah generally the ISPs here are "Speed which you may reach" most of the time, but not necessary all the time kind of mentality...
I could probably write a bash script if someone wants it.
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Ok I got the part where I do a speed test and compare the download speed to a certain treshold, time to figure out how to tweet.
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https://github.com/moisesmcardona/LibertySpeedTestReportScript here is the part for facebook
and here is the link for the python code he used. http://pastebin.com/WMEh802V
Aww I was writing it in bash. Welp I'll finish it tomorrow.
If you don't mind using a bit of java, the twitter4j library is wonderful. You can just call the java program from the bash script.
Oh dear, look what I started haha!
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you may have helped us piss off comcast enough that they actually do something about their shitty internet speeds. I was blessed without comcast, but cursed with cox instead.
Oh no I mean the article link >.< I didn't make it :P lol. I got Time Warner in NY, and it works well. I was so relieved that Comcast was not allowed to buy them out!
i know. for sharing.
Man you guys have it easy I just have a small town isp with no social media and 7 mbits down. My speed isn't really a problem though it is more of it just cutting out randomly. I am thinking about writing a script that just constantly pings something like google and logs it when it can't ping.
Please !
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I want this open-sourced, I'll keep a VM running every day that spams the Mediacom Twitter page. I wonder what he used to do the speedtest...
"Speed which you may reach if the moon and stars are aligned and the Comcast executives are in a good mood, and we decide to swap out the limp spaghetti noodles for actual fiber for a bit"
They don't care. By law no other cable company is allowed to compete with them.
Ask him to give us the source code. We'll put it to good use ;)