{"id":9221,"date":"2014-07-23T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:29:59","slug":"verizon-made-an-enemy-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/23\/verizon-made-an-enemy-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Made an Enemy Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamnotaprogrammer.com\/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html\">Colin Nederkoorn<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/landley\/status\/491621005300072448\">Landon Fuller<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/iamnotaprogrammer.com\/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html\">\n<p>This Netflix video streams at 375 kbps (or 0.375 mbps &#8211; 0.5% of the speed I pay for) at the fastest. I was shocked. Then I decided to try connecting to a VPN service to compare.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It seems absurd to me that adding another hop via a VPN actually improves streaming speed.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly it&rsquo;s not Netflix that doesn&rsquo;t have the capacity. It seems that Verizon are deliberately dragging their feet and failing to provide service that people have paid for. <\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Nederkoorn (via Landon Fuller): This Netflix video streams at 375 kbps (or 0.375 mbps &#8211; 0.5% of the speed I pay for) at the fastest. I was shocked. Then I decided to try connecting to a VPN service to compare. [&#8230;] It seems absurd to me that adding another hop via a VPN actually [&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":[227,751,86],"class_list":["post-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-netflix","tag-network-neutrality","tag-verizon"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","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=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}