I'm signed up, waiting for Starlink to be available at my low latitude (and as more service comes online). I think they (or any Satellite company) could do really good business on a low-volume, burst-demand service... to be used almost exclusively when your primary service is down. It seems like they could serve 10x the number of users @ $30/month than they could with more-full service @ $100/month . I tried talking my neighbors (4 total in an island 1/2 mile from anyone else) into meshing up our network services (one does have satellite, another has weak-antique copper-lines put in by the phone company 40 years ago) but they are not curious nor pro-active types. I even offered to boost my own service up to a scale that would cover *all* of our bandwidth needs if *they* were providing *me* with the redundancy *I* need. Oh well.
I'm in a media hole, getting my internet via microwave off of Tesuque Peak and no good wires/fiber close enough to link up with (and right-of-way issues with the pueblo in any case). No cell tower signal even with a booster (intermittent enough to have tiny bits of txt squirt through). I have a clear view of the equatorial sky. I use GoogleFi and Roku streaming for phone/txt/TV which makes me entirely dependent on that one little tower on a mountain with a 2 week supply of diesel for the backup genny. Snow has never taken them down (even deep/heavy) but high winds sometimes repoint the antennae enough someone has to go up and manually reposition them... If I were truly paranoid I suppose I'd jump on the IP over Ham Radio bandwagon too and wrap my house in grounded copper mesh against the potential Solar Storm/EMP that will probably take out global comms (before a rogue asteroid takes out the biosphere). On 11/6/20 9:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I’m fond of my fiber optic connection, but there’s a reason for > considering Starlink as a backup. > > MSNBC is back now. For a while it was just Fox News! ! (I have IPTV.) > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith > *Sent:* Friday, November 6, 2020 8:24 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] hijinks > > > > My ISP (CNSP/NMSURF) went down at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and did not > return until the wee hours this morning. They reported that a major > fiber cut *south* of ABQ was the cause and it took out their primary > feed, but also a couple of secondary/tertiary feeds they usually can > fall back on. > > I blame the Boogaloo Bois... or maybe the Cowboys for Trump with their > backhoes.... do Antifa know how to operate heavy equipment? Surely > it is in their training protocol? They seem more likely to actually > have people who would know how to splice up broken fiber. > > On 11/6/20 9:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Any ideas on what hijinks we’ll be seeing in the coming days? > > > > My internet has been fluctuating in performance for 15 minutes or > so. Of course, my first thought was a White House ordered cyber > operation on media/ISPs. > > > > Marcus > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/> > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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