{"id":4275,"date":"2013-07-25T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T15:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2013-07-24T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:53:31","slug":"the-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-need-for-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need For Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent conversation at work reminded me that I hadn&#8217;t checked in on my internet speeds since <a title=\"Xfinity Madness Part 2\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/xfinity-madness-part-2\/\">February&#8217;s fun<\/a> with out good friends at Comcast. \u00a0At the time, my download speed had more than doubled, landing at 36.07 Mbps, while my upload speeds stayed about the same at 6.77 Mbps. \u00a0So how are things looking now, 5 months later?<\/p>\n<p>I ran the test twice, first using Google Chrome and then again using Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chromespeed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4276\" alt=\"chromespeed\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chromespeed.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/iespeed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4277\" alt=\"iespeed\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/iespeed.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>The download speeds for both are much improved since February, with a gain of nearly 20 Mbps. \u00a0The Chrome example boosted the upload speed much more than IE, but both were an improvement over February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent conversation at work reminded me that I hadn&#8217;t checked in on my internet speeds since February&#8217;s fun with out good friends at Comcast. \u00a0At the time, my download speed had more than doubled, landing at 36.07 Mbps, while my upload speeds stayed about the same at 6.77 Mbps. \u00a0So how are things looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[3593,2320,3592,3595,3594,551],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-chrome","tag-comcast","tag-google","tag-internet-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}