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Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by haunter »

Not sure it’s the same issue but in Hungary they (DT) refuse to use/pay Cloudflare so in peak hours every single site outside the country loads incredibly slow because of the constant re-routing. Everything has to go through Frankfurt even though CF would have alternate direct routes

https://kozosseg.telekom.hu/topic/40322-cloudflare-magyar-te...

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingHungary/comments/1ngv2pt...

https://telex.hu/techtud/2024/06/21/deutsche-telekom-cloudfl...

At least they are cheap. 25€ a month for 2gbps/1gbps so I can’t complain about that

They also offer 4gbps/2gbps for 40€ but at this point I’m not even sure what to use that for (besides torrent seeding)

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by dgxyz »

anthonj wrote: post #5

Germany always surprise me with continuous contradiction in their society. Largest economy in eu but very unstable and riddled with wierd burocracy. Strongest worker protection, but very large amount of lobbysm. Most advanced railway system in eu, transformed into a joke by interdiction from said lobbies. You have to pay a "radio tax" to help funding press and keep it independent, but then fuck net neutrality. And I…

The one that always gets me is security and privacy paranoid and lecture me on the Stasi and using Apple phones and how they aren't repairable but then goes and uses unpatched rotten old Android they can't fix anyway and sticks fingers in ears. Nearly every German I know does this and I know a lot of Germans as half my family is German and my ex-partner is German.

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by anthonj »

borlox wrote: post #7
anthonj wrote: post #5

Germany always surprise me with continuous contradiction in their society. Largest economy in eu but very unstable and riddled with wierd burocracy. Strongest worker protection, but very large amount of lobbysm. Most advanced railway system in eu, transformed into a joke by interdiction from said lobbies. You have to pay a "radio tax" to help funding press and keep it independent, but then fuck net neutrality. And I…

Do you know similarly large, democratic societies without contradictions?

my impression is that other countries like Italy or France are much more consistent in what they are bad or good at.

But it's possible it's just my personal bias.

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by RHab »

I just ended my contract with them. I could not reach my own raspberry pi Homepage which uses cloudflare. They called me and asked why I ended the contract, I told them about cloudflare, but that my cancellation is final, and magically my Homepage now works again!

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by dzogchen »

I unfortunetely have Deutsche Telekom as my ISP and I can confirm that in the evening websites that use Cloudflare have a latency of one minute or simply do not load at all.

I don’t understand why anyone that serves the German market would use Cloudflare. Regardless of who is at fault, you are losing a lot of customers that way.

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by ekianjo »

anthonj wrote: post #5

Germany always surprise me with continuous contradiction in their society. Largest economy in eu but very unstable and riddled with wierd burocracy. Strongest worker protection, but very large amount of lobbysm. Most advanced railway system in eu, transformed into a joke by interdiction from said lobbies. You have to pay a "radio tax" to help funding press and keep it independent, but then fuck net neutrality. And I…

> Most advanced railway system in eu

France is certainly better

Re: Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet

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Post by direwolf20 »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #19

??? Yes its called peering agreements

DT famously does not use them. They prefer to shut down their peers to make them become customers or fuck off, and by doing so, deliver crappy service to everyone and lose customers, except they have a monopoly so they don't lose as many customers as they should.
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