{"id":147,"date":"2004-02-28T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-28T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/needforspeed.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"needforspeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/02\/28\/needforspeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasing the Weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast has been recently been bragging in their advertising that they have &#8220;doubled&#8221; the speed of Comcast Hi-speed Internet service.  Of course, what they have really done is increased the speed your modem is <em>allowed<\/em> to work at.  Since all cable users on a local trunk share a connection, cable modems have &#8220;governors&#8221; in them to make sure no one takes too big a slice of the bandwidth pie.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the recent increase indicates that they&#8217;ve improved their equipment, that they overestimated the load such speeds would put on their pipe, or if they just aren&#8217;t selling enough broadband, but I do know I like it.  I just finished downloading all 169 Megs of OpenOffice 1.0.3 for Mac <span class=\"caps\">OS X <\/span>(w\/X11) in 7:47.  Average speed was around 370K per second.  Faster than a greased weasel. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comcast has been recently been bragging in their advertising that they have &#8220;doubled&#8221; the speed of Comcast Hi-speed Internet service. Of course, what they have really done is increased the speed your modem is allowed to work at. Since all cable users on a local trunk share a connection, cable modems have &#8220;governors&#8221; in them [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}