Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
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Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#2Seems to me that this protest would have a far higher impact than the blackout - or at least a far higher annoyance factor.
The services it would impact most are high-bandwidth such as content streaming, but of course those may be reluctant to participate as it could realistically ruin their goodwill and quickly decimate their user base.
Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#3Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs. Imagine the internet telling specific users that they have to get off comcast or whatever in order to use their service for a particular day out of every month. Do it maddox style with a nice middle finger. Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
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#4Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs. Imagine the internet telling specific users that they have to get off comcast or whatever in order to use their service for a particular day out of every month. Do it maddox style with a nice middle finger. Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
Where I live I have three choices, 1.5 mbit DSL, whatever small number of GB/mo I can get for $50 on 4G, or Comcast.
There's no pretending, there are no alternatives.
ISP access has weight when I'm considering moving which is sad.
Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#5Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs. Imagine the internet telling specific users that they have to get off comcast or whatever in order to use their service for a particular day out of every month. Do it maddox style with a nice middle finger. Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
> Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
I absolutely want to switch and will as soon as an alternative is available. In my entire life, I've never lived in a place that had anything other than Comcast. And I've always lived in relatively dense areas.
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#6How about something simpler -
Make images load slowly using JS.
A ton of popular consumer sites - facebook, instagram, reddit/imgur are hugely image based. A few lines of JS to make them slowly load (perhaps PNG artifacts for bonus points) and you could very effectively get the point across all while quickly serving a nice large banner.
Offtopic: As a google fiber customer myself, his mention of not remembering the upload speed, made me think of how we need bandwidth to get to the point where it doesn't matter. CPU speed used to be something you quoted. For the last few computers, I don't care anymore, because its simply "enough". I fear the current telco/ISPs wouldn't agree with that idea...
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#7This blog has now made it to my global blocking file for serving the entire post as an image file instead of as text.
Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#8I think simulated slowness is probably better than actual slowness. Something like a javascript file you could include that would hide all the content on the page and show each element at the same speed you'd see with a throttled network. That way you could still display a message about why it's happening, etc. and it's much easier for the average developer to implement.
Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#9How about something simpler - Make images load slowly using JS. A ton of popular consumer sites - facebook, instagram, reddit/imgur are hugely image based. A few lines of JS to make them slowly load (perhaps PNG artifacts for bonus points) and you could very effectively get the point across all while quickly serving a nice large banner. Offtopic: As a google fiber customer myself, his mention of not remembering the u…
Hah, I just posted an identical thought, and I completely agree.
Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
#10Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs. Imagine the internet telling specific users that they have to get off comcast or whatever in order to use their service for a particular day out of every month. Do it maddox style with a nice middle finger. Make users want to switch instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
>Much more effective would be for operators to ban ISPs.
I heartily disagree with this approach. Not only does it harken back to the days of Prodigy, AOL, CompuServe and the like where each service had its own content, but it's very anti-internet.
>Make users want to switch
That's great if there are alternatives to switch to.
Yes, I could technically switch to dialup. It is technically internet. It's not going to allow me to do any work or any of my hobbies, however. So I don't consider it a valid option.
Yes, I could also try out some kind of dish provider. If I wanted to chop down some trees. Besides, those also don't work for me (almost no upload bandwidth, and horrible latency issues).
>instead of just pretend like there's no alternatives.
I live in an area where Comcast literally is my only option for high-speed internet. I'm not pretending.