{"id":18301,"date":"2015-10-02T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18301"},"modified":"2015-10-02T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:26:17","slug":"now-im-zooming-down-the-information-superhighway-as-my-broadband-speed-is-boosted-by-a-factor-of-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18301","title":{"rendered":"Now I&#8217;m zooming down the information superhighway as my broadband speed is boosted by a factor of 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never worried too much about my broadband speed since all I do is e-mail and web browsing. So I was pretty content with my download speed of up to 2.74 Mbps and upload speed of up to 0.76 Mbps. But recently my son and his family relocated to Nairobi, so I&#8217;ve started to use Skype and found my current Net connection inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that, if I was going to upgrade my broadband, I might as well go for fibre and this week the upgrade came into effect. Now I have a download speed of up to 29.12 Mbps and a upload speed of up to 2.25 Mbps. I&#8217;m told that, after some settling down, I might receive a download speed of 39-40 Mbps. Let&#8217;s see.\u00a0Many thanks to my friend Spence for help in fitting the new router.<\/p>\n<p>Together with my iPhone 6 on 4 G and my Apple watch, I&#8217;m feeling pretty connected (at least for a 67 year old).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never worried too much about my broadband speed since all I do is e-mail and web browsing. So I was pretty content with my download speed of up to 2.74 Mbps and upload speed of up to 0.76 Mbps. But recently my son and his family relocated to Nairobi, so I&#8217;ve started to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18303,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18301\/revisions\/18303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}