2015 has been a year of changes for our “homestead.” Some of these make me feel a bit strange.
You may have inferred from the posts on this blog that we kind of revel in the quaintness of our situation. We like the quirkiness of our life—were that not so, we likely would not live this way. Ironically, then, I feel a slight sadness when our situation improves, becoming a bit less quaint or quirky than before.
As I mentioned in the last post (see Eviction Notice) Starband, our satellite Internet provider, will shut down at the end of September. Rather than continue to over pay for slow, often unreliable connectivity, we jumped ship.
We called our cell phone provider and arranged for Internet through their system. Transitioning from satellite to cell seems promising, but we will need to work out a few bugs.
The portable Wi-Fi hotspot, about the size of a smartphone (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
