'Internet Slowdown' is Coming, Warn Groups

[Judi Lynn]

Published on Sunday, September 07, 2014

by Common Dreams

'Internet Slowdown' is Coming, Warn Groups

Top websites partaking in September 10 day of action in support of net neutrality
by Lauren McCauley, staff writer

Calling attention to the widespread disruption that will occur if Internet 'fast lanes' become the norm for wealthy websites, grassroots groups have organized a widespread Internet Slowdown Day on Wednesday to voice their support for net neutrality.

A number of the Internet's largest companies including Etsy, Kickstarter, Mozilla, reddit, Foursquare, Vimeo, and Wordpress have announced that they will also join in the September 10th action by displaying an alert with a symbolic "spinning wheel of death" loading symbol and pushing individuals to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and the White House.

"As that wheel spins, the rules about how the Internet works are being redrawn," Amy Goodman wrote this week.

As Goodman explains, large Internet service providers, or ISPs— such as Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon— are "trying to change the rules that govern your online life," by creating a two-tiered Internet where certain content providers will pay to get preferred access on an Internet "fast lane."

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/07/internet-slowdown-coming-warn-groups

[JimDandy]

1. It's already occuring...

A friend who has Comcast internet and Netflix service had to reload a Netflix movie THREE times last night. That never used to happen. My friend believes the slowdown is deliberate on Comcast's part, as every Netflix offered movie they watch now has to be reloaded at least once. Their movies used to play through all the way before.

[MinM]

9. Yep .. npr had a good piece w/David Cay Johnston

America's Lagging Internet
Friday, November 02, 2012

The United States once led the world in internet speed and infrastructure. Now, according to one estimate, it ranks at about 29. Brooke talks to David Cay Johnston, journalist and author of The Fine Print: How big companies use plain english to rob you blind, who says that companies continue to raise prices and engage in lobbying efforts to rewrite regulation, while avoiding necessary upgrades to infrastructure that would speed up America's internet...

http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/nov/02/americas-lagging-internet/

http://audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm110212h.mp3

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10954093

[JimDandy]

10. Thanks...will check those out. n/t

[Thor_MN]

12. If they are using Windows 8, tell them to try the Netflix App

rather than through a browser. It's not perfect by any means, but seems to do a better job of keeping everything synced up.

[JimDandy]

14. I'll pass that along thanks! n/t

[MindPilot]

2. I have Cox cable. How will I know?

My Internet access seems to get slower every day, so I will probably not even notice.

[Egnever]

3. Odd where are you?

I have cox here in Las Vegas and they just recently bumped my service from 50mpbs to 100mpbs

[Snarkoleptic]

4. Is it possible to add a speed test widget to DU (and other sites)?

Seems like this would be a good way to catch the ISP's pinching the straw.

[Go Vols]

15. DU dosent seem to allow it

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3749046583][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

vB forums make this .png linkable to the graph available on most sites..
So you just click and go.

http://www.speedtest.net/


Edit: To the coders here,I say open doors and learn how to close them,instead of closing doors off the get go.

[jtuck004]

5. Good. Start spending more time outdoors, find a place to be with others in the winter if

you need to be inside.

Change your cable to basic or switch to DSL That will give you slow email and stuff. Downgrade its importance in your life.

Sure, you will buy hundreds of millions of dollars less in stuff and the businesses will scream, but you can just point to the people who made this decision and say "well, they gave us the idea, but we are happier this way" and slowly but surely they topple from their positions of power...

...well, at least start a garden if you don't have one.
.

[Unknown Beatle]

6. I have Time Warner or

Roadrunner, more like Roadcrawler. At times it is so slow that it's like molasses dripping down a tree on a cold winter day.

[rocktivity]

7. Just in time for the November elections?

Well, surprise surprise surprise!




rocktivity

[daleanime]

8. +1

[blkmusclmachine]

11. Privitization of the Internet - YUCK!

[Rex]

13. We will have to depend on groups like Anonymous to fight the virtual wars

that are coming.