#Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower #broadband prices
The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband #deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service providers receiving #subsidies are allowed to charge people with low incomes.
#isp #maga
The Kremlin's Most Devious #Hacking Group Is Using #Russian ISPs to Plant #Spyware
The #FSB #cyberespionage group known as #Turla seems to have used its control of Russia's network #infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick #diplomats into #infecting their computers.
#russia #kremlin #isp
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fsb-turla-secret-blizzard-apolloshadow-isp-cyberespionage/
#Microsoft catches #Russian #hackers targeting foreign #embassies
Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in #Moscow with custom #malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the #ISP level, #Microsoft warned Thursday.
The campaign has been ongoing since last year.
#privacy #russia #embassy
Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
The #Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant #Spyware
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-fsb-turla-secret-blizzard-apolloshadow-isp-cyberespionage/
As you can see the speed of my LTE plus provider is now at about half of what it should be.
A non-technical person would complain. I know that the data provider is using something that we call overboeking {NL}
That literally means that they allow way too many devices to be pooled together which drops down the speed dramatically (a bit more than 50%).
If however you take into account that that same provider gives you on UTP cable a bandwidth that's not even enough to fill a 1.2 TB hard drive {10 MBit} with data in 28 days you know that this speed is still much much better than what they would sell you on obsolete
The power company had done everything that the data Company needed to run passive Fiber cable in the street. The data Company uses Fiber Access Terminals, to connect the houses with the main fiber optic cable that they run in the air. From the smaller cable that comes to your house you get a small breakdown interface that translates, converts the light based data into copper for which they also sell you meager speeds; things like 48 megabits for which they want more than 100% of the money that you pay them for the obsolete xDSL
The power company replaced all the electrical masts required, because they needed certain levels of quality that the old masts did not provide. The Power Company also did the work in less and 50% of the time where retaining safety for everyone and everything
i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years
thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto, for leaving your departmental computer ftp wide open 
you just preserved some insanely useful and important dial-up ISP history. (don't worry rolando - i didn't peek too deeply into your ms-dos games and music folders)
the story:
in the mid-90s i was a teenager who had a summer job at a dial-up isp. we had 32 incoming lines which were handled by 32 external USR Courier modems, which were fed into a super chonky Livingston Portmaster terminal server. all of the support hardware took up an entire rack - just to let 32 people call in for internet service at 28.8kbaud. it ate a ton of power, and made a lot of heat.
then, in 95-96, US Robotics delivered two insane appliances: the Total Control Modem Pool. these were *tiny* devices that offered 16 dial-up modems at 33.6kbaud. if you paid a bit more, you could buy the NetServer version, which gave you a terminal server too. an entire isp in a box the size of a network switch.
the modems had buggy firmware. so USR offered firmware updates via their ftp site. you could even upgrade some of the modems to "x2" 56k service with a firmware patch. they supported it for years, and when 3com bought USR, they kept the ftp site running for years. and then, 3com shut down their ftp site. and no one thought to mirror it.
after 3 hours of searching, i was able to track down a single filename thanks to WBM: mpv90an.zip. not a single site on the web had it - not even IA or discmaster. on a hunch, i plugged it into the Napalm FTP Indexer (https://www.searchftps.net) and... unbelievably, there it was, sitting on an ancient box in someone's university office in Quito, Ecuador.
the most amazing part was how slow the server was. at 250 ms pings, it was like digging through a public ftp on a 14.4k modem in 1994.
tomorrow i'll be uploading these files to IA. for now, sleep.
My speed test for this morning was still odd in U / D Ratio
The download Ratio was good the upload ratio is too low
So much for that liberal bastion...
California backs down to Trump admin, won’t force ISPs to offer $15 broadband
Anybody out there got experience running stuff like #Plesk or #WHMCS or #cpanel?
Opinions on one versus another? Basically I’m helping set up a non-profit (tax exempt if the IRS accepts the application) micro ISP and we are looking for the fundamental platform to run it. Billing, self service purchasing, customers managing their own stuff, etc.
#isp #selfhosting #selfhosted
@landley @pmevzek @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea @ripencc Tho scratch that.
Almost as if my objections at @BNetzA & @Kartellamt@social.bund.de / @Bundeskartellamt@social.bund.de / #Bundeskartellamt were 100% justified, cuz noone likes #Vodafone!
All these years, wanting Fiber Optic, and I finally have it, and someone is going to try to tell me -- They don't have IPv6. 
I am pretty sure they do, and the jerk who brushed me off has no idea what they're talking about. But if they truly do not, I will be greatly disappointed.
What really bothers me is they're only open 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. I've never gotten a real person on the phone, and when I finally get someone to call me back, they blow smoke up my ass.
I contacted GoNetSpeed because they oddly were not providing an IPv6 IP Address. There are many websites I cannot reach.
Told the "know it all" guy, who clearly knows nothing, to escalate my ticket.
About #GPL .
If I buy a second-hand device with #Linux on it, who's responsible for giving me the sources?
It seems logical to me that the person I bought it from. But good luck getting sources from a private rando ( #sustainability #reuse ).
On the other hand, my #ISP sells me, say a #Huawei device. Is the ISP obliged to give me sources or can they say "it's not our problem" and send me to the manufacturer?
Ich hatte ja einen über zwei Jahren andauernden Rechtsstreit mit dem #ISP "Vodafake", ich habe zwar gewonnen durch die Fähigkeiten meines Topanwalts und meine lückenlosen Beweise gegen diesen mit der #GCHQ zusammenarbeiteten Drecksladen, musste aber über die Prozessdauer vorfinanzieren und alles auf Funk umstellen, da #Vodafone mir meinen eigenen Festnetzanschluss sperren durfte.
Endlich: Ich freue mich jetzt wirklich über die ersten Geldstrafen gegen Vodafone: Die #BfDI hat gegen Vodafone zwei #DSGVO-Geldbußen in Höhe von insgesamt 45 Millionen Euro verhängt. 15 Millionen entfallen auf betrügerisches Vorgehen bei der „Akquisition“ von Neuverträgen, die restlichen 30 Millionen muss Vodafone zahlen, weil die Firma sich ...
Weiterlesen via @PC_Fluesterer → https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2025/07/17/endlich-geldstrafen-gegen-vodafone/
@mattotcha the problem isn't to get high speeds. I worked for an #ISP that routinely offered 100 GBit/s #fiber links to other ISPs for their cell towers.
For example, #Netflix and espechally #YouTube compress the shit out of content becaus bandwoth is expensive and even the earliest 1080p24 #HDDVD looks better than 1080p streaming, as they have ~ 35MBit/s of bandwith whilst #streaming rarely goes >15 MBit/s and oftentimes extra aggressively reach < 5MBit/s in less action-heavy scenes.
When your free service (@BoxyBSD) kicks you out of bed on a Saturday morning.
The monitoring just alerted me about a potential abuse at my free hosting project and indeed - much traffic from a single user but luckily legit traffic.
Better safe than sorry.
1. Obviously...2. Not gonna argue with that.3. as long as there are #IPv4only services and applications, I do at least need proper #DualStack. Regulators like @BNetzA refuse to mandate #IPv6 connectivity and I only get #IPv4 from my #ISP.
