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posted by janrinok on Monday January 08 2018, @08:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the suspected-is-now-guilty dept.

Internet slowdowns at home aren't just annoying anymore. They can be hazardous to your health or dangerous if you're in an area that freezes.

Internet service provider Armstrong Zoom has roughly a million subscribers in the Northeastern part of the U.S. and is keen to punish those it believes are using file-sharing services.

The ISP's response to allegedly naughty customers is bandwidth throttling -- which is when an ISP intentionally slows down your internet service based on what you're doing online. In this case, when said ISP believes you're doing something illegal.

As part of its throttling routine, Armstrong Zoom's warning letter openly threatens its suspected file-sharing customers about its ability to use or control their webcams and connected thermostats.

The East Coast company stated: "Please be advised that this may affect other services which you may have connected to your internet service, such as the ability to control your thermostat remotely or video monitoring services."

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/05/pirates-risk-being-left-in-the-cold/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Monday January 08 2018, @09:28PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday January 08 2018, @09:28PM (#619719)

    That is where I could keep calling them over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. "Umm, hey my VPN connection to the datacenter is slow as fuck again. Can you issue a ticket please and find out what is wrong?

    I think that's kind of a little secret almost. Purchase a business class connection at home, or claim that you are connecting up to work. Everyone is in the cloud anyways, so how they heck can they tell the difference between work and your own personal communications server on AWS?

    Considering that they're allowed to inject advertisements and illegally (it was before Orange Anus) collecting and disseminating your data, I would use a VPN.

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