{"id":4866,"date":"2008-08-30T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2008-08-30T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T21:48:13","slug":"the-best-broadband-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/30\/the-best-broadband-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The best broadband in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speedmatters.org\">Speedmatters<\/a> test on my Comcast connection today, just for the fun of it (OK, I&#8217;m bored with this Obama vs. the Moose Hunter stuff.) This test is sponsored by the Communication Workers union, as an argument for taxpayer subsidies for broadband. The results I got are not what they&#8217;re hoping for:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/pitchers\/upload21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/pitchers\/upload21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blazing Uploads\" width=\"389\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4871\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So my little Comcast account is faster than all that fiber in Japan and Korea. <\/p>\n<p>So why all the whining?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran the Speedmatters test on my Comcast connection today, just for the fun of it (OK, I&#8217;m bored with this Obama vs. the Moose Hunter stuff.) This test is sponsored by the Communication Workers union, as an argument for taxpayer subsidies for broadband. The results I got are not what they&#8217;re hoping for: So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/30\/the-best-broadband-in-the-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The best broadband in the world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1gu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}