| EDIT: Well, this got more popular than I ever expected. Resizing the linode now. Should be back up soon. After months of fighting with CableOne about speed and service problems, I decided to finally spice up my website dedicated to their poor service: www.iscableoneshitty.com Now, instead of just saying "YES," it gives an actual representation of the quality of the connection to my house. The server pings my modem 5 times at the top of every minute. It takes the response times and averages them. If the average response time is <60ms, it reads "NOT CURRENTLY." If the average response time is between 60 and 100ms, it reads "MOSTLY." If the average response time is >100ms and <150ms, it reads "YES." If the average response time is >150ms, it reads "VERY YES." I've distributed to friends and neighbors in the area, because almost every one in my town is on CableOne for lack of other choices, so they can check and see if at least someone else is having trouble. I have thoughts of actually tracking the data and compiling monthly reports of downtime and slowness, I just haven't gotten around to that yet. |
I work at an ISP.. and ... ah.. they're shitting bricks about it, because now they'll have to live up to the speeds and reliability they've sold to customers :)