Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Bad Internet Karma

After such good luck with internet connectivity in Florida, we were disappointed that our luck failed both in NJ and in NY. We finally are up and running again in NJ after replacing the modem and the router. But the new gear is much faster, so we are happy we made the change.

Then we got to camp and had very bad and intermittent connectivity. W discovered that the cable end had corroded. So we decided it was time to ditch Hughesnet in favor of Mi-Fi service from Verizon. We took off some time from home improvement and drove to Saranac Lake to pick up the device, and bought paint, etc while we were there. But the Mi-Fi is a disaster. It barely works. Apparently the Verizon tower near us is old and the service seems to have deteriorated since we moved here. So we are back on Hughesnet. Jack fixed the cable this morning and all is well again.

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