{"id":1650,"date":"2010-04-29T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2010-04-29T21:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T03:31:57","slug":"26-or-1-31-gb-gone-in-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"26% (or 1.31 gb) gone in one night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December, <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=808\">I ranted about how a 5 gigabyte limit on internet connection plans are completely unrealistic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Late last night I was updating one of my laptops and found this in the update que.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4564215959\/?addedcomment=1#comment72157623960166708\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1.31 out of 5 gone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3273\/4564215959_b270f1da12_o.jpg?resize=542%2C474\" alt=\"1.31 out of 5 gone\" width=\"542\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1.31 out of 5 gone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>1.31 gigabytes of core system updates. That&#8217;s 26.2% of my monthly allocated bandwidth gone in one night.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I think it&#8217;s nucking futs that 1.31 gb of data still takes 5 hours to download on one of the major (and better) wireless companies in the United States. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is laughing at us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news170447728.html\">coming in at 28th place in the internet connection speed race<\/a>! You know things are bad when <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5390014\/internet-speeds-and-costs-around-the-world-shown-visually\">France is royally beating us senseless, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody who says 5 gigabytes is more than enough for one month of internet use needs to leave the 1990&#8217;s behind and get some new tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December, I ranted about how a 5 gigabyte limit on internet connection plans are completely unrealistic. Late last night I was updating one of my laptops and found this in the update que. 1.31 gigabytes of core &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=1650\">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":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}