{"id":1054,"date":"2008-12-23T18:26:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:26:30","slug":"cable-woes-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/cable-woes-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Cable Woes Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13th I wrote about my <a title=\"Cable Internet Woes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/13\/cable-internet-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\">long-standing cable Internet woes<\/a>. At the end of that note, I mentioned that I would update everyone if my solution worked.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day that we are back in the apartment, and I can now report that we&#8217;ve had zero drops in the past six hours. That seems to point the finger squarely at the old Netgear FVS318 ProSafe VPN Firewall. While it was <em>working<\/em>, it was also flaking out unbelievably.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a big bonus: the WAN port on the FVS router was a 10Mbps port, even though the eight LAN ports were 10\/100. The Netgear WNR854T N router that I replaced it with has a 100Mbps WAN port, and GigE LAN ports (purchased re-certified for $40!). So, my download speed was topping out at around 8Mbps on the old router (when it wasn&#8217;t dropping packets), but the current one is reliably downloading at 18Mbps! Awesome!<\/p>\n<p>The upload speed is still a very pokey 490Kbps, but you can&#8217;t have everything, at least not all the time. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m now back to 60\/40 as to whether I prefer the house to the apartment. Purely due to the Internet connection, I was closer to 90\/10 for the past six months!<\/p>\n<p>How little it takes to make me happy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 13th I wrote about my long-standing cable Internet woes. At the end of that note, I mentioned that I would update everyone if my solution worked. Today is the first day that we are back in the apartment, and I can now report that we&#8217;ve had zero drops in the past six hours. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[235,187],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-computers","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}