New Home, New Shop
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- SteveHGraham
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New Home, New Shop
I made it to my new home, and I wanted to post photos (as requested), but I have had some astounding and vexatious problems, and I also had no Internet connection. I had to switch cell carriers in order to be able to get a signal, and now I'm on a wireless hotspot.
Tomorrow I'll have blazing-fast wired speed rivaling that which most people experienced in 1998, and I will try to get some photos posted.
Tomorrow I'll have blazing-fast wired speed rivaling that which most people experienced in 1998, and I will try to get some photos posted.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
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Welcome home ... and to the world of sucky internet . Always happy to know I'm not the only one out there stuck in 1998
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There will be that one special patch of grass somewhere where the cell phone reception will be the best.
Mark it so you can run right to it when someone calls.
Mark it so you can run right to it when someone calls.
Glenn
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- SteveHGraham
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Here is what I learned: my old carrier's coverage map is more of an aspirational thing than an accurate representation. My new carrier has a strong signal, and for most purposes, using my phone as a hotspot is like having a router.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
- SteveHGraham
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Really bad sign: when I try to log into the website for the wired ISP, it takes forever.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
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That is going to change. When my pc blows up, I get more work done.
- warmstrong1955
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After years of being tethered by two-way radios, radio phones, and then cell phones, as part of my job, I can easily do without them, and prefer to get away from them. We used to vacation in a spot on a big lake in the Yukon, I called Notelephonia. Closest cell service was 40 or 50 km away.
If your new ISP is not so hot, you may look into satellite services. We used them on some remote jobsites, and they worked pretty well.
Our service here is not the greatest, and suffers outages often. Last time we were out for a week cause of a wildfire. Train wreck took it out before that, and some guy who forgot to call before he dug prior to that time. It's always something.
But......I'd rather deal with crummy internet, than live in modern suburbia!
Bill
If your new ISP is not so hot, you may look into satellite services. We used them on some remote jobsites, and they worked pretty well.
Our service here is not the greatest, and suffers outages often. Last time we were out for a week cause of a wildfire. Train wreck took it out before that, and some guy who forgot to call before he dug prior to that time. It's always something.
But......I'd rather deal with crummy internet, than live in modern suburbia!
Bill
Today's solutions are tomorrow's problems.
- SteveHGraham
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They finally got it working, after two tries. Now I can connect at will and experience Bush-era speeds.
Every hard-fried egg began life sunny-side up.
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SteveHGraham wrote:They finally got it working, after two tries. Now I can connect at will and experience Bush-era speeds.
Faster than the speed of smell!
Today's solutions are tomorrow's problems.
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You could post a black & white gif of a sketch of your shop
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Which Bush?SteveHGraham wrote:They finally got it working, after two tries. Now I can connect at will and experience Bush-era speeds.
~RN
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Prescott.NP317 wrote:Which Bush?
~RN
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