{"id":688,"date":"2012-10-15T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=688"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:50:59","slug":"are-you-a-rabbit-or-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/688","title":{"rendered":"Are you a rabbit or a turtle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slowcomputer.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"slowcomputer\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slowcomputer.jpg?resize=300%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slowcomputer.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/slowcomputer.jpg?resize=231%2C150&amp;ssl=1 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Good morning boys and girls!\u00a0 Today; my friend and I were discussing how fast our internet connection here is.\u00a0 We were disputing the little network icon that stated the internet connection was 54.4 mbps. \u00a0 I visited <a title=\"Test your internet's actual speed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\" target=\"_blank\">Speedtest.net<\/a> to test just how fast the internet connection really is: I was highly disappointed.\u00a0 The internet speed here is actually only 5.39 mbps (download) and .96 mbps (upload).<\/p>\n<p>I guess the question is this: why does my internet connection suck so badly?\u00a0 What can I do to improve my connection speed.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?\u00a0 I look forward to your replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning boys and girls!\u00a0 Today; my friend and I were discussing how fast our internet connection here is.\u00a0 We were disputing the little network icon that stated the internet connection was 54.4 mbps. \u00a0 I visited Speedtest.net to test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/688\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","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":[9],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2650,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/2650","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":0},"title":"Cyber Security for the home user","author":"DR D","date":"January 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Recently I received an email from a readers board that I'm a member of; the site was hacked. \u00a0That sucks, now I have to around and change all my passwords again! \u00a0This coupled with all the news of the Russian hacking, I thought it might be a good time to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/category\/computing"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/cyber-security-1721673_1280-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1058,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1058","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":1},"title":"An experiment in Timesharing: 2013 Timeshare Journey &#8211; Questions&#8230;","author":"DR D","date":"June 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good afternoon.\u00a0 I recently received feedback from a couple who are actually living my dream - living full time in a timeshare, M&E. 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Yay!","author":"DR D","date":"October 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This is just a real short post to say \"Hey!! I got my domain name back!\" As you may have noticed, it's been a few years since I last posted to this site. Would you like to know what happened??? For many years, my domain name was at a separate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Stupid\"","block_context":{"text":"Stupid","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/tag\/stupid"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1145,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1145","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":4},"title":"Wyndham Skyline Tower &#8211; Atlantic City","author":"DR D","date":"November 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning boys and girls.\u00a0 Last weekend saw the boss lady and I in Atlantic City, NJ.\u00a0 We stayed at the Wyndham Skyline Tower, near the Resorts Casino. 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