{"id":362,"date":"2009-07-06T11:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-07-07T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T09:16:46","slug":"i-hate-my-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/i-hate-my-isp\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate my ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really do.  Not because they <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bandwidth_cap\">cap my bandwidth<\/a> (actually, I&#8217;d never know, the service is down so often, you&#8217;d never get to download enough to test) or some silly thing like that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s DOWN ALL THE FUCKING TIME.  Today, it was down more often than it was up.  Now, I will give them one concession &#8212; they are a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_Internet_service_provider\">Wireless ISP<\/a>, and I believe we are nearing the end of their coverage area.<\/p>\n<p>However, that is <strong><em>no <\/em><\/strong>excuse.  If they appraised our property as being inside their coverage area, then there should be <strong><em>NO REASON WHATSOEVER<\/em><\/strong> that our internet goes out <em>this much<\/em>.  I use SSH to login to a remote server, where I attach a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gnu_screen\">screen<\/a> session that has my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irssi\">irssi<\/a> running so that I&#8217;m always connected to IRC. I <strong>know<\/strong> when the Internet times out, and I have the logs to prove that it&#8217;s really bad.  <\/p>\n<p>Finally, their shitty receiver has a built-in firewall that the consumer can&#8217;t modify.  Playing Xbox Live (even when the Internet isn&#8217;t timing out) is a chore, because I can&#8217;t open the correct ports.  It&#8217;s altogether incredibly infuriating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really do. Not because they cap my bandwidth (actually, I&#8217;d never know, the service is down so often, you&#8217;d never get to download enough to test) or some silly thing like that. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s DOWN ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Today, it was down more often than it was up. Now, I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/i-hate-my-isp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Hate my ISP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowing-tubes","category-post-per-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}