August Patreon Offerings: Moving Off the Homestead?

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Mark Zeiger
Zeiger Family Homestead Patreon Page

Our Patreon page, where our patrons go to download A Place at the Table and more (screenshot).

There’s new material from the homestead available to Patreon patrons!

We skipped July, because we just couldn’t upload anything to the page that month. Now, with the help of the tweaks I made to our booster antenna (see Incremental Improvements) we’re doing better, so we rushed uploads for August while we could.

This month’s edition of A Place at the Table, available to Super Homestead Patrons, discusses the possibility of moving to Ireland. Michelle and I discuss an open letter from the people of Arranmore Island, County Donegal, Ireland, seeking immigrants.

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Incremental Improvements

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Mark Zeiger

I’ve complained a lot about internet service this summer. I’m not alone. One of our neighbors got tired of complaining to our carrier, and reported their lack of response to the FCC! We may do the same soon.

However, one day I couldn’t even connect to the internet as a mobile hotspot! Usually, we connect our phones, then spend the rest of the day waiting for a gap in local usage to get our work done.

I finally began to suspect that there might be more to it than the daily overwhelming bandwidth use by tourists. And, like all problems on the homestead, if there’s a problem, we need to solve it ourselves.

So, I grabbed a ladder, a saw, and my wits, and went out to troubleshoot our booster antenna.

cell phone booster antenna

The key to the internet system: the booster antenna (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger)

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