{"id":49412,"date":"2015-01-29T13:16:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/broadbanded-no-longer.html"},"modified":"2015-01-29T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T20:16:36","slug":"broadbanded-no-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/broadbanded-no-longer.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadbanded no longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add &quot;Comcast&quot; to that boat.  I did some of the Internet speed tests out there &#8212; Verizon, Ookla, AT&amp;T, MegaData &#8212; and all gave me about 22+ mbps up, 6 down.<\/p>\n<p>Which, honestly, is all I need, because I don&#39;t stream videos to my computer (and really don&#39;t want to pay for that much data, anyway), but it is kind of creepy.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By this new definition, my Internet service from AT&amp;T U-Verse would no longer qualify as &quot;broadband&quot; because it tops out at 18Mbps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2015\/01\/tons-of-att-and-verizon-customers-may-no-longer-have-broadband-tomorrow\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XAS5kl-JRfb-j1vYEd54perVXGajVWKzElMvixbjY6vjrnWVtyfI1iKOJTdoyS4MZ0aq6nRCsrRzEJ0_foScwmxOMX6qo9JVPcxllti851PXer5aa0zEcvAb4OcgRkbQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2015\/01\/tons-of-att-and-verizon-customers-may-no-longer-have-broadband-tomorrow\/'>Tons of AT&#038;T and Verizon customers may no longer have &ldquo;broadband&rdquo; tomorrow<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n25Mbps minimum would leave 19% of US homes without broadband access.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/YCKWJMcYU5b'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add &quot;Comcast&quot; to that boat. I did some of the Internet speed tests out there &#8212; Verizon, Ookla, AT&amp;T, MegaData &#8212; and all gave me about 22+ mbps up, 6 down. Which, honestly, is all I need, because I don&#39;t stream videos to my computer (and really don&#39;t want to pay for that much data, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/29\/broadbanded-no-longer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broadbanded no longer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6566,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/net_net.html","url_meta":{"origin":49412,"position":0},"title":"Net net?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Aug-04 6:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wired is no longer capitalizing \"internet,\" \"web,\" and \"net.\". 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