{"id":3394,"date":"2013-02-13T07:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2013-02-10T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T23:07:56","slug":"xfinity-madness-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/xfinity-madness-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xfinity Madness Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Xfinity Madness\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/xfinity-madness\/\">Last May<\/a>, we had some fun with the folks at Comcast that resulted in doubling my internet download speed from 6.41 Mbps to 14.87 Mbps.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/newspeedtest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1877\" alt=\"newspeedtest\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/newspeedtest.jpg\" width=\"524\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/newspeedtest.jpg 748w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/newspeedtest-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a>As part of the fix to this <a title=\"Comcast Woes\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/comcast-woes\/\">weekend&#8217;s<\/a> troubles, which involved swapping out some splitters and an amplifier, the cable guy mentioned that it would have a positive effect on the internet speed as well. \u00a0So how much of an effect did it have?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013speedtest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3397\" alt=\"2013speedtest\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013speedtest.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013speedtest.jpg 735w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013speedtest-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">36.07 Mbps??\u00a0 That&#8217;s more than double the previous speed, which was more than double what I had been putting up with just 1 year ago.\u00a0 Now, I have no way to prove that all of this was done with the tweak over the weekend, but it certainly makes a few hours without cable and missed episodes of <em>SNL<\/em> and <em>Ripper Street<\/em> well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last May, we had some fun with the folks at Comcast that resulted in doubling my internet download speed from 6.41 Mbps to 14.87 Mbps. As part of the fix to this weekend&#8217;s troubles, which involved swapping out some splitters and an amplifier, the cable guy mentioned that it would have a positive effect on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[2320,3011,688],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-comcast","tag-ripper-street","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}