{"id":38914,"date":"2018-10-15T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=38914"},"modified":"2018-10-15T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:22:34","slug":"internet-in-mexico-is-basically-the-opposite-of-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/internet-in-mexico-is-basically-the-opposite-of-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet in Mexico Is Basically the Opposite of in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been incredibly happy with my ISP in M\u00e9rida this past year, Izzi. I&#8217;ve been paying them for a 50Mbps connection and have been consistently getting speeds of about 47Mbps. I&#8217;ve always understood that there is degradation from the modem to the computer, especially through WiFi, and that expecting my exact download speed isn&#8217;t realistic. So 47Mbps when I was paying for 50 was more than good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/now-thats-service\/\">I had cable installed just under a month ago<\/a> and the guy who did that was not happy that I was only getting 47Mbps downloads and just over 1Mbps uploads. So, with authorisation from his superiors, he put in a new modem.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tested my internet connection a few times over the last four weeks and have consistently gotten these results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-at-Oct-15-14-03-49-300x52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"52\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-at-Oct-15-14-03-49-300x52.png 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-at-Oct-15-14-03-49-619x108.png 619w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screenshot-at-Oct-15-14-03-49.png 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes. I&#8217;m getting 10Mbps more download speeds AND my upload speeds have basically quadrupled. And, yes, I can totally see the difference!<\/p>\n<p>Coming from a country where ISPs and the government treat internet access like a luxury and a privilege (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/un-says-internet-access-is-a-human-right-2016-7\">when it is actually deemed a human right by the United Nations<\/a>), it continues to be shocking to me that ISPs in other countries, like\u00a0Mexico, value their customers and want to provide them with good service. After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/internet-access-is-the-main-reason-i-am-going-to-emigrate-from-canada\/\">a 20-year war against Canadian ISPs<\/a>, it sure feels good to be able to say positive things about my internet service!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been incredibly happy with my ISP in M\u00e9rida this past year, Izzi. I&#8217;ve been paying them for a 50Mbps connection and have been consistently getting speeds of about 47Mbps. I&#8217;ve always understood that there is degradation from the modem to the computer, especially through WiFi, and that expecting my exact download speed isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38917,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914\/revisions\/38917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}