Tales from a cardboard house Part 2
This house has a few things in its favor. This is one of them:
It's not an unobstructed view of the mountain, but it's still nice to have out your window when eating breakfast. There used to be a desert across the street too, but they're furiously putting up town homes and it's a big mud pit now.
I'm also really at the edge of the town. A week after moving in I found out that neither DSL nor cable internet were going to serve me. (Cable will be installed in the new houses going up across the street.. grumble.) So what did I do?
This is pointed at an antenna a mile away, put up by a local power company.
It's not cheap and it's not fast. My biggest frustration however is that I'm on a private IP, so I can't run any sort of server. Perhaps when they finish the houses across the street I can convince the cable company to run a cable over here. Or I could move.. In the meantime, at least I can surf the net and read email.
It's not an unobstructed view of the mountain, but it's still nice to have out your window when eating breakfast. There used to be a desert across the street too, but they're furiously putting up town homes and it's a big mud pit now.
I'm also really at the edge of the town. A week after moving in I found out that neither DSL nor cable internet were going to serve me. (Cable will be installed in the new houses going up across the street.. grumble.) So what did I do?
This is pointed at an antenna a mile away, put up by a local power company.
It's not cheap and it's not fast. My biggest frustration however is that I'm on a private IP, so I can't run any sort of server. Perhaps when they finish the houses across the street I can convince the cable company to run a cable over here. Or I could move.. In the meantime, at least I can surf the net and read email.