they usually inform us when this happens because my ISP is basically a mom and pop op.
and it’s expensive as hell
(they poor stick people)
probably just the planned upgrade they are rolling out and you are getting some extra
http://stopthecap.com/2017/12/13/charter-spectrum-hurrying-100-mbps-speed-upgrades-years-end/
how would i know if im served by them?
go to speedtest…it says…
ah ok, annnd that would be a no
not served
It’s not dead they just voted to kill it behind the barn soon. There is also no way you’re gonna notice right away, they also have to wring their hands and setup the fuck the common person button and all that.
For all you know ISP will boost your service in an attempt to change public perception on Net Neutrality or they’ll do it just slowly enough to avoid detection. They’re not stupid, there’s a reason the vote was guaranteed, from the moment Pai became chairman.
That’s not too bad, well, who am i to be talking.
Did another test and i hit 7/3
what the hell is going on
Thats of course obvious, pretty much every isp does that.
The reason for that is simple, using their speed test tool gives them a reliable number of the speed that you could reach on their network.
So that they can claim that the advertised speeds can exally be reached.
If you use a “third party” speedtest, or use a third party download source thats outside of their own network.
Then the actual advertised speeds can never be guaranteed.
Because then there are manny more factors that will affect the actual download speed.
Thats why isp’s allways advertise with " UPTO download speeds".
This is unrelated but your profile picture is giving me shivers. Is it photoshoped or is that a real worm parasite inside frog’s eye?
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Business stay in business by keeping a majority of their customers happy.
That means netflix and streaming services will thrive under repeal, Tor and porn sites will suffer.
Time to look forward to 5G and beyond, tech that will make cable Internet look like AOL and Compuserve.
Oh, it’s a bit cold today, so much for global warming…
i had this thought a while ago. and yes, i saw the speed bump — in speedtest sites, anyway. (note - not only my ISP’s speed test, but everything was really hit and miss, difficult to see repeatable results anywhere.) my nic claimed things were about like normal, though (long upload @ 1.5MBps).
There have always been internet fast lanes and there always will be.
You all do realize we are just going back to pre-2015 internet.
FTC still has regulations in place, and if someone does something jacked, antitrust laws are a thing.
it may help them in the short term, but it also takes power from the FCC, the government agency that killed radio with over regulation and draconian regulations on encryption. I’m for net neutrality, but that wasn’t what this was, giving back to the FTC allows for less strict regulation and may very well allow for better legislation in the future… Apart from the FCC
It’s a lose lose either way for the consumer
Yup. Comcast throttling Netflix until they paid extortion money. Comcast fucking with torrents, even though people were well within their monthly bandwidth allotment. Having to shame Comcast into getting better than DOCSIS 1.1 modems and speeds in 2008.
Yeah. Can’t fuckin’ wait to go back.
That’s why we enstated NN, we had other bills in the works that just got overshadowed,
we may see them actually pass considering the FCC isn’t holding us by the balls.
I didn’t say it was just going to be instantly fixed, not to be a jerk or anything, but i think you missed the point of what i said… 
It is 100% true that ISP will cache speedtest dot net to show “best case” performance.
Use something like speedof.me or testmy.net.
Source:
Worked for ISP.
No, I didn’t. It’s yet another in a series of attempts to make us feel better about the death of Net Neutrality. This one is a shadier one that gives us false hope that something better will just happen along now that Net Neutrality is out of the way.
Spoiler alert: It’s not coming.
Anti-trust laws are still a thing, and they are a thing that can often take months to resolve. Hopefully you didn’t want to watch Netflix, or use Vonage for the next several months while a judge who doesn’t know technology from a can of paint decides whether or not Vonage’s VOIP service is the same thing as your ISP’s telephony service.
ah ok, well you seem pretty set on this, but…
shadier? Another attempt? False hope?
I just said, that NN and what we had were both bad for the internet in general
you can’t make an omlet without cracking a few eggs.
It may never come, though i don’t think it’s going to be as bad as you think.
Once this starts affecting the nation at large, the courts will probably see our side.
Growing pains, did you really think NN would stay around forever? It’s way to restrictive, ISPs hate it,
there is a middle ground somewhere, I think we have a better chance of finding it now than we have for
the past two years.
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