{"id":137,"date":"2005-11-12T15:02:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=137"},"modified":"2010-09-28T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:22:50","slug":"labs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Labs2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I visited Labs2 and I \u00ab test-surfed \u00bb the internet at 1 Gig. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labs2.com\/\">Labs2<\/a> of Sweden offer internet connections of 1 Gig (uplink\/downlink) for 89 EUR which is absolutely incredible. Surfing at those speeds is like landing a jet plane. Extasis. To have an idea of what it\u2019s like to have a 1 Gig connection, here\u2019s how long it took to perform the following downloads:<\/p>\n<p>-new skype software: &lt; 1 second<br \/>\n-high-resolution movie trailer by Apple (200 Mb): &lt; 3 seconds.<br \/>\n-song on Napster &lt; 1 second<\/p>\n<p>I simply didn\u2019t want to disconnect. In my house in Madrid, I have a 1 Mb connection (uplink) and much less on downlink. I asked for much faster connection and I was told to wait 5 weeks\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The system, that combines fiber-optic category 6 cables for a distance of up to 100 meters, is the best I have every seen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=137\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I visited Labs2 and I \u00ab test-surfed \u00bb the internet at 1 Gig. Labs2 of Sweden offer internet connections of 1 Gig (uplink\/downlink) for 89 EUR which is absolutely incredible. Surfing at those speeds is like landing a jet plane. Extasis. To have an idea of what it\u2019s like to have a 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[428,436,435,427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}