Hello,
One of my internet providers has blocked my broadband adsl internet
connection for over a 2 months now. They still steal money from my bank
account and they still hold the adsl line hostage, so I can switch over
to another ADSL internet provider. I could switch over to a (tv) cable
internet provider, however these are more expensive and only few
providers available because of mergers.
I am not happy about all this:
1. Blocked internet access.
2. Vastly reduced internet provider choice.
3. They stealing money and providing no service for it in return.
4. They received false complaints, they were too lazy to do proper
research, and now they accuse me of things I did not do, and even if I
did do it, it's not serious enough to disconnect anybody for 2 months.
What are they, internet police ? I don't think so ?!
The question is what to do about it ? I can see 4 options:
1. Switch to a more expensive (tv) cable internet provider.
2. Sue the ADSL internet provider.
3. Start a cyberwar against the ADSL internet provider. It's the
Italian Internet Provider (Tiscali). However I live in the Netherlands
where they are also present !
4. Stick with the current dial-up internet provider.
Here is what I have to say about the options:
1. I don't really want to switch to a more expensive (tv) cable
internet provider, since it's more expensive, and they also have the
same kind of contracts, so they may also disconnect me for no reason at
all ! Most internet providers have some lines in their contracts which
say: "We have the right to disconnect you at any time !". Ridicilous I
say ! That's dangerous ! People might have internet telephone, and then
they can't call the help services in case of fire or injury or other
dangerous situations ! Furthermore internet is becoming more and more
important, just disconnecting people for no reason or bullshit reasons
should not be allowed anymore ! Internet has become to important to
just let some internet provider mess it all up !
2. The law in the Netherlands even states that disconnecting equipment
from open communication networks without valid reason is a crime.
However the goverment does little against it. It's a new law.
Furthermore, most lawyers and judges know little about internet and
it's technology, the same can be said for the police, they know little
about it all, they are mostly busy catching street criminals and such.
Going to the police at least in my neighbourhood is useless. Same can
be said for the lawyers. However I am still waiting for the lawyers
response... they still have to make up their minds. Gje. It's only been
2 months... Gje.
3. So that brings me to option three. Cyberwar ! We could start a
cyberwar against such ISP's like Tiscali and block their networks from
our webservers, websites and homepages. They don't provide me, and us,
with services then we don't provide anymore of our services to them !
So their networks will become less valuable ! At some point if enough
people take part in the cyberwar, their users will switch, because they
can no longer access any websites. It's mean, it's not nice, but the
ISP is doing it already ! Should we do they same back at them ?
That's my question really:
Who is willing to start or support a Cyberwar against these kinds of
Evil ISP's ? and maybe you have some ideas about such a war yourself ?
we can discuss those.
You can also reply via e-mail at: Sk*********@hotmail.com
If we do start a cyberwar maybe we will become anonymous to protect
ourselves somewhat.
I can be short about option four, it's working, but it ain't great. Me
not too happy about it. I was lucky I still have an old computer, with
an old 33k6 modem which is still supported by Windows 98. I can forget
about windows xp, it doesn't support it, as well as other older
phone/fax/data modems <- no driver support. I might buy a new 56k6
modem, but then I would have to replace one my graphics cards in my new
computer, and that kinda sucks as well... and the improvement won't be
that much and dial-up is kinda expensive... need to pay per minute...
but it's not too expensive for now. The problem is... downloading
larger stuff becomes a
problem... so that's not good. I am not happy about that.
Bye,
Skybuck !
