{"id":21448,"date":"2017-07-30T01:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21448"},"modified":"2017-07-30T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T00:13:16","slug":"slow-broadband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21448","title":{"rendered":"Quick, Quick, Slow Broadband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/713;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Places in the UK where broadband is slow\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/bb_map.png\" alt=\"Places in the UK where broadband is slow\" width=\"524\" height=\"713\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>Extensive government research <a title=\"West Highlands worst in UK for broadband, MPs find\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-40757817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has identified several areas in the UK where broadband is quite slow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the population density in the UK as a whole is over 270 people per square kilometre. The population density in the areas identified as having the slowest broadband &#8211; mainly the extremities of Scotland and rural Wales &#8211; is as low as 3-4 people per square kilometre (and in one area, 3-4 probably represents the average IQ of the population there as well).<\/p>\n<p>MPs are apparently planning next to spend a lot more money on identifying that it is darker at night than it is during the daytime, and that ice melts when it warms up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extensive government research has identified several areas in the UK where broadband is quite slow. Note that the population density in the UK as a whole is over 270 people per square kilometre. The population density in the areas identified as having the slowest broadband &#8211; mainly the extremities of Scotland and rural Wales &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}