Daily Archives: May 9, 2016
It’s A Trap!
to quote a famous fishheaded Admiral.
Since I’ve been downloading so many updates and upgrades to our granddaughter Piper’s laptop, and since the 3G and 4G internet service here at Lake Conroe is so sucky, I was considering subcribing to the park’s new FAST WAVE Wi-Fi service.
Nobody at the park seemed to have any idea what kind of speeds I would be seeing, and there was not a phone number or email address on the signup site to ask them.
So after waffling a bit, I logged in and signed up, paying for 1 week at $14.95.
Big mistake.
As soon as I got online, I first went to Speedtest.net to check the speed. And immediately decided the service was misnamed.
SLOW WAVE was more like it. Kind of like Jumbo Shrimp or Pretty Ugly.
Speedtest showed me about 2.5 Mps, slower than I was getting at Colorado River on 3G, must less the 30 – 40 Mps I was getting on 4G. The only thing actually faster was the Ping time. It was 20 ms rather than the usual 100 ms I get on 4G. That means when you click on something on the web, it will only take 20 thousandths of a second, rather than 100 thousandths of a second, for something to happened. Big Whoop!
The only redeeming thing, and the reason I didn’t call and cancel immediately, was that it does take the load off our Aircard bandwidth, so we’re not slowed down while the laptop is updating.
As it was, I spent a good part of the afternoon downloading about 1.5GB of 216 Win7 updates and gettng them installed. Now I’m still trying to get all the drivers installed, but they don’t make it easy.
As I figured, our ‘power problem’ that we had at Colorado River has not happened here. This afternoon both the front and rear a/d units were running, so I cringed as Jan started the microwave. And . . . nothing. No problem at all.
So it’s all Colorado River’s fault.
Thought for the Day:
A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.
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