January 2016 — It is about 10pm on a Monday evening in New York City.

Too Long; Didn't Read

January 2016 — It is about 10pm on a Monday evening in New York City. I have an hour to pass before my next train home. It is freezing and I am near the Mid-Manhattan Library at 455 Fifth Avenue. So I decide to go in and sit upstairs in a quiet zone. I pull out my Macbook. The library’s Wi-fi login window pops up on the screen. I log in. Out of habit, I check the connection speed and whoa! The speedometer needles deep into the red zone for both upload and download speeds. I am getting 80.56 Mbps downstream and 94.30 upstream.