Frustrated Comcast customer sets up bot to tweet complaints every time internet speed drops
Jan31
A Reddit user became so frustrated with paying Comcast for 150 mbps internet but not receiving the prescribed speed, so set up a bot using a Raspberry Pi to tweets complaints at the ISP. The bot constantly performs speed tests to check if the internet is up to scratch, and if it drops below 50mbps an automatic tweet to Comcast with the speeds is generated. Reddit user AlekseyP created the bot and even open-sourced the code so that others can use it, when they had issues getting more than 30mbps on a connection that promised 150mbps speeds. Every time their…
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