{"id":7756,"date":"2012-05-23T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2012-05-23T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T08:04:23","slug":"cruisin-down-the-internet-superhighway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=7756","title":{"rendered":"Cruisin’ down the internet superhighway"},"content":{"rendered":"

My home broadband connection has been upgraded. In an improvement from the previous 5Mb download and 250Kb upload, I’m now getting 29.75Mb download and 2Mb upload.<\/p>\n

I recognise that for some people in other parts of the country\/world, even these new figures might be seen as being pretty pathetic, but for here, in the primary town of our Prime Minister’s very own constituency, these are strong numbers.<\/p>\n

I had a nice chat with the Openreach engineer as he was doing his stuff.<\/p>\n

He looked at the guitars, the music stand, the music, the writing-in-progress, the photographs of me and the horses and said ‘Is there anything you don’t do?’<\/p>\n

‘Loads!’, was my reply. ‘Absolutely loads’.<\/p>\n

And now, as I have the day booked off as leave, to celebrate the\u00a0stupendous\u00a0broadband upgrade I shall…<\/p>\n

Go to work.<\/p>\n

No, me neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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