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Better Internet soon, hopefully?
Feb. 9th, 2021 08:23 amIt was a tech upgrade kind of evening last night.
Hubby had signed up to be included in the beta test for Starlink Internet almost as soon as it was announced, and last night, out of the blue, he got an email annoucing they were opening the beta at our latitude and he could sign up for it ("sign up" being purchase the equipment for it). It was something he's been anticipating and had the money set aside for, on the off chance that we'd be chosen to participate (not everone who signs up gets to), so he jumped right on it and, now, in 2-4 weeks when the equipment arrives, we'll may finally have really, really fast internet. There's a chance trees might be in the way, which will mean clearing out some, but hopefully not (and if so, hopefully not any of my favorites *bites nails*). It's crazy to think that Internet speeds will be faster when beamed down from 550 km up vs from just 3 miles away from a tower. If this works, we'll be going from 9 MBS, on average, to 50-150 MBS. We may well go into shock.
The other tech upgrade: Dink's phone is dying, so she ordered a new iPhone (new but not the latest model) last night, and it should be here Wednesday... *if* it's not still so icy that UPS and/or FedEx won't attempt our driveway. It started drizzling and freezing yesterday afternoon and now the only safe way to walk around is with yaktrax on my shoes.
Boomer is not impressed with the weather and I don't blame him.
Stay warm, everyone!!
Hubby had signed up to be included in the beta test for Starlink Internet almost as soon as it was announced, and last night, out of the blue, he got an email annoucing they were opening the beta at our latitude and he could sign up for it ("sign up" being purchase the equipment for it). It was something he's been anticipating and had the money set aside for, on the off chance that we'd be chosen to participate (not everone who signs up gets to), so he jumped right on it and, now, in 2-4 weeks when the equipment arrives, we'll may finally have really, really fast internet. There's a chance trees might be in the way, which will mean clearing out some, but hopefully not (and if so, hopefully not any of my favorites *bites nails*). It's crazy to think that Internet speeds will be faster when beamed down from 550 km up vs from just 3 miles away from a tower. If this works, we'll be going from 9 MBS, on average, to 50-150 MBS. We may well go into shock.
The other tech upgrade: Dink's phone is dying, so she ordered a new iPhone (new but not the latest model) last night, and it should be here Wednesday... *if* it's not still so icy that UPS and/or FedEx won't attempt our driveway. It started drizzling and freezing yesterday afternoon and now the only safe way to walk around is with yaktrax on my shoes.
Boomer is not impressed with the weather and I don't blame him.
Stay warm, everyone!!
