{"id":3612,"date":"2011-07-20T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2011-07-20T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T20:05:49","slug":"rapid-dhcp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/rapid-dhcp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid DHCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cafbit.com\/entry\/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do\">David Simmons<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/5by5.tv\/hypercritical\/26\">Hypercritical<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/cafbit.com\/entry\/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do\"><p>All too often, I&rsquo;ll open the lid on my EeePC netbook, enter a Web address, and get the dreaded &ldquo;This webpage is not available&rdquo; message because the machine is still working on connecting to my Wi-Fi network. On some occasions, I have to twiddle my thumbs for as long as 10&#8211;15 seconds before the network is ready to be used. The frustrating thing is that I know it doesn&rsquo;t have to be this way. I know this because I have a Mac. When I open the lid of my MacBook Pro, it connects to the network <em>nearly instantaneously<\/em>. In fact, no matter how fast I am, the network comes up before I can even try to load a Web page. My curiosity got the better of me, and I set out to investigate how Macs are able to connect to the network so quickly, and how the network connect time in other operating systems could be improved.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&rsquo;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2755461\">discussion on Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Simmons (via Hypercritical): All too often, I&rsquo;ll open the lid on my EeePC netbook, enter a Web address, and get the dreaded &ldquo;This webpage is not available&rdquo; message because the machine is still working on connecting to my Wi-Fi network. On some occasions, I have to twiddle my thumbs for as long as 10&#8211;15 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}