My reaction after my internet suddenly popped back on after being down or molasses slow all day yesterday.

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GCI was a total bitch yesterday, and my internet access was either nonexistent or reminiscent of the old dial up days.

Fortunately I managed to finish and file my taxes right before everything went to shit.

FCC to save the internet from greedy service providers.

Courtesy of BGR:  

Verizon’s lawsuit against earlier net neutrality rules is about to backfire in a spectacular fashion. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Communications Commission will propose new net neutrality rules that will reclassify ISPs under Title II of the Telecommunications Act and thus open them up to being regulated more like utilities. 

“According to multiple people familiar with the agency’s plan, Mr. Wheeler intends to change the way both mobile and fixed broadband firms are regulated,” the Journal writes. “Rather than being lightly regulated information services, they would become like telecommunications companies, which would subject them to greater regulation on everything from pricing to how they deploy their networks.” 

This would give the FCC the power to stop ISPs from blocking traffic from services that rival their own and from setting up paid prioritization schemes where they would charge money to Internet companies to ensure that their traffic got delivered faster than other companies who don’t pay up.

This of course has angered many service providers like Verizon and AT&T, who had hoped to make huge profits by charging large companies like Netflix more money to allow them faster connection speeds while limiting regular users.

I have to tell you as somebody who relies on the internet for my livelihood I welcome this news with open arms.

I currently pay through the teeth for my internet here in Alaska from GCI, and I really hope that these new regulations will help improve our overall access to bandwidth and also reduce costs.

By the watch to see which politicians start calling this government overreach, big brother tactics, and an attack on capitalism. Because those are the politicians who are in the pocket of big business.

Damn it I knew it! Alaska has the second slowest internet in the nation.

Courtesy of Radio Kenai:  

As one of the country’s most remote states, Alaska is often behind the eight ball when it comes to new developments, especially in technology. A new study confirms what many have suspected: Alaska’s internet speeds are among the slowest in the country. 

What might be surprising is that Alaska wasn’t the slowest in the test; Akmai Technologies said Arkansas took the red lantern with the slowest rates in the USA. 

Report author David Belson said Alaska’s Internet speeds are up 33 percent from last year, but they’re still only half as fast as the three states with the best internet delivery: Virginia, Delaware and Massachusetts.

I don't even want to tell you how much I have to pay per month to the bandits of GCI for halfway reasonable internet speeds, but I will tell you that it is money better spent on loose women and dangerous mind altering substances.

And considering how important my internet is to my job, my free time, and my sex life when there are no loose women around, I really do not have much of a choice.

What we need up here is some real competition.

And I don't mean some fly by night company making promises and talking smack that GCI will smash like a but under their heel.

No what we need is Google Fiber.

Sadly I live in Alaska which means that it will probably take a decade or more before Google Fiber finds its way up here.

By which time I will probably only be able to pound out one or two posts a day with my claw like arthritic fingers. And the majority of them will probably be focused on the last time I was able to take a poop.

Oh well, it could be worse. I could be living in Arkansas.

Does anybody else in the world lose internet due to this?

Leave it to a drunken Alaskan to try and kill the internet with a gun.

"Bitch are you Googling divorce lawyers? Where's my pistol?"

BTW did you notice WHO lost internet access?

Mat-Su. And do you know who lives in the Mat-Su Valley?

Hey, I'm not saying there's a connection, I'm just pointing out the coincidence.