{"id":939,"date":"2007-09-11T22:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/for-the-want-of-internet"},"modified":"2007-09-11T22:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:16:50","slug":"for-the-want-of-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/for-the-want-of-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Want of Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat to my surprise and chagrin, we are checked into a hotel that doesn&#8217;t have the internet readily accessible. While there is a single computer in the lobby that is connected to the internet, there is no wireless or wired connectivity provided by the Ports Hotel. There is some &#8220;interspot&#8221; company offering wireless access, which we have been sporadically able to use, but their hours of operation are extremely limited and so far we haven&#8217;t been in the area when they are open to attempt to purchase connectivity from them. Of course, they have to automated system, which Dan and I would have both readily used. So tonight, I wandered around with Dan in search of internet. The first trip yielded some temping morsels, but no luck. So now that everyone is asleep or headed there, I took off again in search of the internet. And, as the last post and this one makes clear, I found it, to the tune of 18 Mbps on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksyscommunitynetwork.com\/\">Linksys Community Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it is nice to be able to check my mail again. I just hope Canada is as safe as it is cracked up to be. Actually, I&#8217;m not worried &#8212; after all, I biked through the lightning today. For reals (see next post).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhat to my surprise and chagrin, we are checked into a hotel that doesn&#8217;t have the internet readily accessible. While there is a single computer in the lobby that is connected to the internet, there is no wireless or wired connectivity provided by the Ports Hotel. There is some &#8220;interspot&#8221; company offering wireless access, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,15],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}