{"id":536,"date":"2012-05-08T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddixon.me\/?p=536"},"modified":"2012-05-08T21:06:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:06:06","slug":"536-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Be wise and thrifty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/20120509-211810.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/20120509-211810.jpg\" alt=\"20120509-211810.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that bit of arse kissing didn&#8217;t work yesterday. I still got hit with a bill of almost $500 to configure a modem router to the Internet. I was reminded that if I don&#8217;t use one of the more run of the mill popular brands then it&#8217;s a bit of a challenge to work through the menu options to get the ports opened for email (internal and remote) working.<\/p>\n<p>I was mesmerized by my new TP-LINK modem&#8217;s claim that I was not buying any ordinary modem, but a very fast F1 racing car, and I was impressed! The earlier Netgear and Link Sys Models that i had been carrying fall well short with what I have now.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m not a big fan of the big brand name equipment because upgrades and improvements occur so quickly you should budget to replace an entire system within 3 or 4 years (small business). Believe me I&#8217;ve seen my fair share of supposed reliable items packing up prematurely. The worst example was 4 server grade hard drives in a RAID system, over a space of 6 months, and then I had to buy a replacement server because the old server just crashed too often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that bit of arse kissing didn&#8217;t work yesterday. I still got hit with a bill of almost $500 to configure a modem router to the Internet. I was reminded that if I don&#8217;t use one of the more run of the mill popular brands then it&#8217;s a bit of a challenge to work through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,19,32,79,80,83],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back","tag-cars","tag-computer","tag-gaming","tag-technology","tag-transportation","tag-vacation","post_format-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}