{"id":189,"date":"2008-11-29T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/?p=189"},"modified":"2008-11-29T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T12:47:07","slug":"how-broadband-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/how-broadband-changed-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How Broadband Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had broadband Internet access for almost a month now. It rocks! My only complaint is that there have been occasional spots of downtime (usually not more than a few minutes) and I can&#8217;t get to our router from the &#8220;cloud&#8221; via an IP address (our &#8220;modem&#8221; is a point inside Silonet&#8217;s network). But for all the benefits I&#8217;m not going to gripe about it.<\/p>\n<p>Some things that have changed due to broadband access: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I used to tape TV shows and then watch them later. Between competition for the TV, setting it up to properly tape, and our abysmal reception, it was a pain. Now I can watch most of the few shows I follow online at <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/generic\/generated\/shows\/AtoZ.html\">CTV&#8217;s website<\/a> or <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltv.com\/globaltv\/video\/index.html\">Global&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I rarely listen to my CDs (on my computer) anymore. Between streaming radio (Radio Y&#8217;s <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/radioy.com\/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=13&amp;Itemid=31\">The Rock<\/a> is my favourite) and sample songs on artist&#8217;s websites, there are loads of tunes available (legit, too!)<\/li>\n<li>Multiplayer gaming is sweet! Way back in the day I used to play Descent 2 and StarCraft (demo) online but as broadband gained a majority no one wanted to have a dial-up user slowing the game down. I&#8217;ve tried Team Fortress Classic and Far Cry and have particularily enjoyed Team Fortress. I can see why it is so popular! BTW, my Steam username is &#8220;kryptech&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m using <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a> a lot more now. It was painful on dial-up but rolls along all smooth-like on broadband.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad we have broadband! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had broadband Internet access for almost a month now. It rocks! My only complaint is that there have been occasional spots of downtime (usually not more than a few minutes) and I can&#8217;t get to our router from the &#8220;cloud&#8221; via an IP address (our &#8220;modem&#8221; is a point inside Silonet&#8217;s network). But for &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/how-broadband-changed-my-life\/\">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\/189"}],"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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kryptech.name\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}