{"id":1229,"date":"2009-07-01T09:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/01\/an-end-to-shitty-public-wifi\/"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:31:39","slug":"an-end-to-shitty-public-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/01\/an-end-to-shitty-public-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"An end to shitty public wifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where mobile internet is becoming as available as air and water, I think it&#8217;s time to enforce the same standards for internet as for air and water. When a place offers wifi for free, they ought to be required to provide a minimum of quality internet service (e.g. a target minimum latency and uptime). How is it that I can run a cheapo off-the-shelf wireless access point at home over shitty DSL (with no additional tweaking) and still get better service than this coffee shop can offer during their mid-morning customer lull?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;trying&#8221; people &#8211; look it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where mobile internet is becoming as available as air and water, I think it&#8217;s time to enforce the same standards for internet as for air and water. When a place offers wifi for free, they ought to be required to provide a minimum of quality internet service (e.g. a target minimum latency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[12],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-1229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random","7":"tag-whining","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}