http://aaron.maenpaa.ca/blog/tags/wired/The most recent ranting and ravings of a madman.Sun, 22 May 2016 05:32:35 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://aaron.maenpaa.ca/blog/entries/2011/04/18/on_bandwidth/<p>While I was in Vegas for <a class="reference external" href="http://aaron.maenpaa.ca/blog/tags/mix11">MIX</a>, I used my phone's built-in wifi tethering rather than pay the hotel $15/day for shitty wifi. Surprised by how good it was, I posted something to that effect on Facebook:</p> <img alt="&quot;quot;Is is a bad thing that the 3G I'm getting by using my Nexus S as a hotspot seems faster than my wired internet at home?&quot;" src="/blog/entries/2011/04/18/on_bandwidth/facebook-9c440fbb7ab9.min.png"/> <p>Once I got back home, my internet was being difficult so I decided to conduct an experiment:</p> <img alt="0.65 Mbps" src="/blog/entries/2011/04/18/on_bandwidth/wired-25f828537e82.min.png"/> <img alt="1.58 Mbps" src="/blog/entries/2011/04/18/on_bandwidth/3g-ed2489ac2854.min.png"/> <p>Can you guess which one's my wired internet connection? That's right: The slow one. So yeah, this is obviously not okay and I'm going to have to do some digging.</p> http://aaron.maenpaa.ca/blog/entries/2011/04/18/on_bandwidth/Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:29:29 GMT