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<\/a>This thing had good reviews and a good price, so I bought it and it worked wonderfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lately, however, it’s been showing its age. My Internet speeds would slow to a crawl and I found that I could reboot the router and get back to normal. (Little did I know how pathetic my “normal” had become.) In the last week or two, even rebooting didn’t help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday, in desperation, I bought a replacement at Best Buy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I paid the same price as I’d paid fourteen years ago. It had good reviews and was nearly the cheapest one in stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to speedtest.net, performance is thirty-to-ninety times better, depending upon where I’m sitting when I run the test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, gentle reader, cable your laptop directly into your router and run a speed test. Then run the same test over wi-fi and compare the numbers. Nothing lasts forever. I’ve had one Internet router for fourteen years. In computer years, that’s, like, forever. This thing had good reviews and a good price, so I bought it and it worked wonderfully. Lately, however, it’s been showing its age. My Internet speeds would slow to a crawl and I found that I could … Continue reading “Dr. Rooter’s Router”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-7z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
You, too, might be a candidate for a life changing router replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"