We currently have satellite – which is great if your
only other choice is dial up. But it is affected by weather. Huge
thick clouds will block signal. Snow will accumulate on the dish.
If you do a big download (ok, hubby is a developer and works from home with a
data intensive job as well as running about 8 different websites for a side
business), they will cap your download speed. Download speeds are decent,
upload, very slow. Latency sucks.
But we have a better solution! We live in an area that
doesn’t currently have any other options, but close enough to a city to
be in a desirable fringe of high speed access potential. We found a guy
looking to expand his high speed business and our property has sufficient
visibility to surrounding populations. So he is putting a 120’
tower on our property. We get REALLY high speed (not capped like the average
customer) for FREE, plus it will give us wireless over a good part of our
property, which includes our barn and the announcers booth at our arena.
So we’re going to be able to put a wireless monitor in our barn –
webcam, foaling stall monitoring and just for fun for some of our remote
boarders who don’t get to see their horses very often.
It should be set up this week – I can hardly wait!
Now I just have to take my satellite to ride like the Duck and we’ll be
set!
