I'm the victim, victim of such an ISP an ISP which wants to charge me an arm, a, leg and my little cousin, for a simple, one simple IPv6 address. There's a whole section of the internet that I can't see simply because my ISP lives in the Anals of Utter Darkness
And on the Top of that for this mediocre speed which is delivered on an obsolete xDSL router they want this amount of money USD 40
Here's @KarlBode with a very informative piece on the #FCC under chairman and censor-in-chief Brendan Carr as he approaches his first 100 days and it's a great takedown and bashing as you can expect from Karl.
He's anti-consumer, pro-censorship, very pro-telecom (mostly towards Starlink), human rights-killer and more.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/656653/brendan-carr-fcc-anti-consumer-harassment-dei-trump
The horrifically slow internet speed that provider wants perfectly high amounts of USD for, while they refuse to give us IPv6 address blocks, a required, a highly required service for which they have everything in their infrastructure.
What do you guys do with your left-over (public) IPv4 addresses? And no, that’s meant for real :)
ISPs and #robocallers love the #FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible
#privacy #security #surveillance #isp
This time the ISP decided to drop the amount of bandwidth that it gives to the clients, the paying clients without any nice warning
Feast yourself on the amount of bandwidth I get for the ridiculously high amount of money in USD
My ISP gave me an interesting scare a couple of minutes ago. As you know if you do not want to pay them for a permanent IPv4 address, which I consider obsolete networking, they remotely reboot your gateway device and assign it a random IP out of one of their IPv4 pools.
This time it didn't take the usual long 30 to 90 Seconds to reboot the device and transfer credentials to obtain the new IP.
The Gateway got in an infinite loop somewhere and I had to Power it off, then had to wait 90 seconds to power cycle it before it took 180 seconds for the device to finally get the new IP.
Someone screwed up the login sequences for the xDSL devices of which the hashtag is in the toot and now we as the paying customer again have to pay for it in wasted time.
Luckily this power cycling off xDSL devices occurs only once in 6 weeks and usually I do not use the internet at that point in time.
In case you are wondering my Gateway uses obsolete technology, is forcibly assigned by the ISP and it's also cursed with a extremely low transfer speed.
I just included a speedtest after first draft of this toot
As you can see the speeds here are so low the connection is virtually unusable for anything where you have to move a big bites of data. They still manage to extort more than USD 30 a month for this connection
Tell #Congress : No to Internet #Blacklists
#FADPA , and other proposals in the works, would force internet service providers (ISPs) and domain name system ( #DNS ) providers to block sites, including U.S. sites, based on one-sided #copyright accusations, even when those sites also host lawful content.
#isp #privacy
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-no-to-internet-blacklists
Question to the network people out there:
Are there any ISPs that are IPv6 only (without providing a NAT/whatever)?
Background: Having an argument with a provider that hasn't published any AAAA records, and whilst I think that's poor form, I'm wondering if this would actually negatively affect any actual users in practice?
If you like using other people's DNS, this is a reminder that CIRA has the "Canadian Shield," the free public DNS (for Canadians).
https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/configure/home-router/
Well that was weird. Solid red lights on router for more than 20 minutes. Used the. ISP automated troubleshooting tool - it said "we'll need to send and engineer to fix the issue which is outside your home complete with expected fix by date of the 17th....
10 minutes after that everything seems to be working again...Hmn. 'Fixed' or not, time will tell.... 
#LibreQoS v1.5 Demo - #QualityOfExperience Software for (not only) #ISP Networks:
I suspect #NBN contractors might be at work in my street [& specifically outside my house atm], finally running fibre-optic cable up my street from the node box ~700 m away. A normal peep would not speculate, but simply wander outside, say g'day, & have a look/ask. Ofc not me though; i'm quietly under my bed, trembling with all the other silverfish & cockroaches & spiders, hoping they & their noise go away soon.
D0gknows how i'm gonna manage, some other time, to actually deal with them coming into my place, inside my home, for the necessary Doings, later once my #ISP advises me that #FttP is finally available for me if i want it [which i do, just not the peeps needed to get it]. Sigh.
most of the DEC Alphas that ran production for SDF.ORG since 1999 are still around. what should we do about this in 2025? #server #retrocomputing #64bit #isp #vintagecomputing
#SupremeCourt rejects ISPs again in latest bid to kill NY’s $15 #broadband law
#scotus #isp
ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate.
@ArsTechnica reports: "When the FCC isn't regulating, states have more power to impose broadband laws."
All this thread 
showing why the merger of #connectivity, #ISP, #CDN, content control, etc is so dangerous and why any person or organisation, no matter the size and the #communication
needs, should stay away from #Starlink,, and any dependency on them.
Unless they are absolutely certain their politics will forever be aligned with the #fascist #Mump regime.
Build #local connectivity and skills.
Altice gibt Identitäten preis von Musik-Piraten: Plattenlabels drängen zur Offenlegung
#Filesharing #Rechtssachen #Altice #BitTorrent #ISP #ISPCox #MusikPiraten #Plattenlabels https://sc.tarnkappe.info/e9df23
Just looked at my .ssh/known_hosts file. There's systems in there that haven't existed for 29 years.
I don't think I need those entries any more, and ssh-keygen is complaining that they're in an unknown format.
