{"id":6312,"date":"2015-04-22T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T17:00:52","slug":"isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/isps\/","title":{"rendered":"ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Internet Service Provider (ISP) has recently notified us that they have started using internet usage caps.  Yay!<br \/>\nIt gets better<br \/>\nThey notified us halfway through the billing cycle.  Surely that is an illegal practice.<br \/>\nOh by the way, starting two weeks ago we are now charging for your use.<br \/>\nNeedless to say we are not impressed.<\/p>\n<p>What we have done is change our usage practice.<br \/>\nThis may be noticed with the allsky1 system in particular.<br \/>\nWe used to upload lossless .PNG format files and the resulting .AVI video of the nights images, plus an hourly update for those wanting to do what current sky conditions are in our area.<br \/>\nAs of now, we are only uploading lossy .JPG files and creating the .AVI video on the server itself, rather than upload it.<br \/>\nHourly updates have also been cancelled.<br \/>\nThis should take daily usage from 100MB down to 36MB or monthly from 3GB to 1GB<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few days of problems with the new software code needed, but I think it has been sorted out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Internet Service Provider (ISP) has recently notified us that they have started using internet usage caps. Yay! It gets better They notified us halfway through the billing cycle. Surely that is an illegal practice. Oh by the way, starting two weeks ago we are now charging for your use. Needless to say we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}