{"id":824,"date":"2010-08-08T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T07:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-08-08T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T07:53:24","slug":"internet-speeds-in-santa-monica-and-westwood-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/08\/internet-speeds-in-santa-monica-and-westwood-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Speeds in Santa Monica and Westwood Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet speeds in Santa Monica and Westwood suck when you compare them to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netindex.com\/download\/allcountries\/\"> Kyrgyztan (14 mbp\/s) or Latvia (24 mbp\/s)<\/a>. Never mind that these areas in LA have economies that dwarf these two places.<\/p>\n<p>The average speed in these areas seems to be at about 1.5 mbp\/s in Westwood and 10 mbp\/s in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p>1.5 mbp\/s is simply not acceptable in Westwood. 10 mbp\/s is simply too slow in a town that prides itself on being the movie capitol of the world, especially for someone like James Cameron who has his offices there. Using a messenger to ship a DVD is still faster than using the bandwidth available there.<\/p>\n<p>If West LA is to have a world class tech scene, we must have more bandwidth. More bandwidth is what allows a place like Silicon Valley to develop technologies first. A good example is AJAX, which sucks when most folks are on a modem. However, leveraging faster than average bandwidth allowed folks in Silicon Valley to learn this crucial technology \/ technique first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet speeds in Santa Monica and Westwood suck when you compare them to Kyrgyztan (14 mbp\/s) or Latvia (24 mbp\/s). Never mind that these areas in LA have economies that dwarf these two places. The average speed in these areas seems to be at about 1.5 mbp\/s in Westwood and 10 mbp\/s in Santa Monica. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}