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This is just sensationalized clickbait from Engadget. The ISP didn't say "we'll mess with your connected thermostats" at all. They did say that they might thr
by jlgaddis 9y ago
This is just sensationalized clickbait from Engadget.
The ISP didn't say "we'll mess with your connected thermostats" at all.
They did say that they might throttle customers and "that this may affect other services which you may have connected ... such as ... your thermostat".
I work for an ISP and, upon reading the headline here, I thought, "Wow, that sounds absurd!" -- and it is absurd because that's not even close to what the ISP said.
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- QAPereo 9y agoNot to mention that I would guess modern piracy and VPNs go hand and glove.
- wmf 9y agoAlso, Nest uses virtually no bandwidth so throttling won't hurt it.
- dtornabene 9y agoKind of makes you wonder why they included it in the warning then. Perhaps they understood that it would frighten their customers into compliance.
- dtornabene 9y agoDo you expect an ISP to come right out and state something like that? "Thats a nice thermostat you got there, be a shame if something happened to it.....". Stating, directly, that throttling a customers internet is going to have an effect on their thermostat is going to be read a very specific way by those on the recieving end, and its hard to see how anyone who wrote that would miss its implication.
- jlgaddis 9y agoI didn't read it that way at all. To me, it simply sounds like the ISP is making sure the customers know all of the details -- including any unintended side effects they might not have thought about.