{"id":69451,"date":"2014-10-10T10:34:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=69451"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:10:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T09:10:07","slug":"is-doubles-2014-rage-lan-connection-to-4gbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/69451-is-doubles-2014-rage-lan-connection-to-4gbps","title":{"rendered":"2014 rAge LAN connection just got a whole lot better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know what you&#8217;re missing out on at the rAge LAN this year?<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week (Wednesday, 8 October 2014) Internet Solutions (IS) announced in a press release that it would be providing a 2 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Internet connection to rAge LAN attendees.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out they were low-balling it, and have installed double that capacity for the event at the Coca Cola Dome running today (Friday, 10 October 2014) through the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Usage is already at over 2 Terabytes, with attendees already filling up over 3Gbps of the available 4Gbps download capacity.<\/p>\n<p>On the upload side, LAN users are burning through over 470 Megabits per second and have used 0.35TB.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this is day one. And it&#8217;s just started.<\/p>\n<p>At rAge 2013, IS provided a 1Gbps connection, and users burnt through over 20TB of data.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69453\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rAge-2014-Day-1-hour-1-IS-network-usage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69453\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69453\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rAge-2014-Day-1-hour-1-IS-network-usage.jpg\" alt=\"rAge 2014 Day 1 hour 1 IS network usage\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">rAge 2014 Day 1, hour 1, IS network usage<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/69235-40mbps-uncapped-vdsl-price-roundup.html\">40Mbps uncapped VDSL price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/69209-playstation-plus-prices-in-sa-hiked-by-over-50.html\">PlayStation Plus prices in SA hiked by over 50%<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/69091-xbox-games-with-gold-for-october-2014.html\">Xbox Games with Gold for October 2014<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That super impressive 2Gbps Internet link at rAge this year is twice as big as previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":69455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[21,1569,1455,12461],"class_list":["post-69451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-internet-solutions","tag-nag-lan","tag-rage-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69457,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69451\/revisions\/69457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}