{"id":82,"date":"2007-01-04T01:19:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T08:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=82"},"modified":"2007-01-04T01:19:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T08:19:53","slug":"rcn-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"RCN to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Kat called Tuesday to set up service, RCN came out today and we&#8217;re up and running. On the advertised 10M\/800K line we opted for, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\">Speedtest.net<\/a> is showing&#8230;meh, somewhere close. I ran some tests when Comcast was up and regularly got 10K+ to Seattle and LA; now it&#8217;s more like 7K (though I&#8217;ve run those tests at different times of the day and week). NYC and the midwest are still around 5K, which is exactly what Comcast was hitting. So, for about $20 less a month, I have roughly equitable performance, perhaps a little slower down but a hell of a lot faster up (750K FTW), and up all the time, which is most important. And RCN did confirm that they&#8217;re bringing 20M\/2M to my neighborhood soon, and I sure as hell will jump on that bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>In its last act of defiance, Comcast winked in and out of usefulness all morning. Goodbye and good riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Kat called Tuesday to set up service, RCN came out today and we&#8217;re up and running. On the advertised 10M\/800K line we opted for, Speedtest.net is showing&#8230;meh, somewhere close. I ran some tests when Comcast was up and regularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=82\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}