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How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds on your website using Nginx
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| # The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited | |
| # | |
| # Current known FCC address ranges: | |
| # https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915 | |
| # | |
| # Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft | |
| # | |
| # In your nginx.conf: | |
| location / { | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 192.133.125.0/24 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 165.135.0.0/16 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 192.104.54.0/24 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 4.21.126.0/24 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 65.125.25.64/26 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| if ( $remote_addr ~* 208.23.64.0/25 ) { | |
| limit_rate 3k; | |
| } | |
| # put the serve files or proxy_pass code here. | |
| } |
Genius.
FWIW: If you are a MaxCDN customer you can enable this in the CP: http://blog.maxcdn.com/throttle-fcc-fight-net-neutrality/
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Brilliant! Implementing this on all of my sites...
Anyone implemented this recently?
Are those IP-ranges still correct?
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@m1 Pay no heed. Apple's employees know everything about everything.