{"id":187,"date":"2008-11-04T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-11-04T12:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T12:38:44","slug":"finally-broadband-internet-access-w00t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/finally-broadband-internet-access-w00t\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally: Broadband Internet Access!! w00t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">finally <\/span>have broadband Internet access!!<\/p>\n<p>For years we&#8217;ve been hoping Bell would provide DSL along our road but we&#8217;d pretty much given up hope on that. Then near the beginning of 2008 a company put underground cabling down our road, under contract to Rogers. Of course the font-line Rogers salespeople knew nothing about it. I got in touch with someone more on the planning side and he gave an estimated activation date in late fall. However, further review this fall provided a dismal outlook on this option.<\/p>\n<p>Then the other day I was browsing <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.silonet.ca\/\">www.silonet.ca<\/a> and saw they had a tower just north of our place, on a silo we can see from our back steps! So I called them up, and before noon today we were connected!<\/p>\n<p>The system uses 2.4GHz radio waves to communicate with our antenna. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\" target=\"_new\">www.speedtest.net<\/a> reported a download speed of 1,988 kbps and an upload speed of 776 kbps. There is no monthly bandwidth cap so that is cool.<\/p>\n<p>It is weird always being connected. The phone rang while I was surfing. I&#8217;m always thinking that I should be either using the Internet connection or otherwise disconnecting. The first &#8220;broadband&#8221; type thing I did was stream <font class=\"userTrack\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Movin&#8217;<\/span> by <\/font>Group 1 Crew from their website. I think some of the lyrics say it well:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If you really wanna move you got to get movin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally have broadband Internet access!! For years we&#8217;ve been hoping Bell would provide DSL along our road but we&#8217;d pretty much given up hope on that. Then near the beginning of 2008 a company put underground cabling down our road, under contract to Rogers. Of course the font-line Rogers salespeople knew nothing about it. &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/finally-broadband-internet-access-w00t\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}