Yes…. Had it so far about 14 years…. Funny thing is that my house is very rural. When the town got cable 35 yrs ago, we could not get cable as they run 1/2 mile of cable and the get 50 customers… 1/2 mile here gets 2 houses. Finally the town forced them to supply anyone who wanted it. We finally had cable tv and internet.
After about 2 years it just sucked… after 3pm the net would painfully slow that the screen painted itself like a dial-up modem. As kids got out of school, it just loaded up with kids from development areas… We switched to Verizon. They ran fiber and my friend and riding buddy was assigned to the install …
We now have gigabit service and it is lightening in a strand of glass. 500 mbps is not uncommon on the cell phones
Yes…. Had it so far about 14 years…. Funny thing is that my house is very rural. When the town got cable 35 yrs ago, we could not get cable as they run 1/2 mile of cable and the get 50 customers… 1/2 mile here gets 2 houses. Finally the town forced them to supply anyone who wanted it. We finally had cable tv and internet.
After about 2 years it just sucked… after 3pm the net would painfully slow that the screen painted itself like a dial-up modem. As kids got out of school, it just loaded up with kids from development areas… We switched to Verizon. They ran fiber and my friend and riding buddy was assigned to the install …
We now have gigabit service and it is lightening in a strand of glass. 500 mbps is not uncommon on the cell phones
We have Xfinity. So far nobody has run fiber to the top of our hill. Just 4 houses on the line for about a mile. We are at the end. It has been ok. Very few outages at least.
See….i get that since we are in the same kind of spot. I am also likely at the end of the power line as well. As for outages in the last 45 years we have had over 200 power outages. Some for 20 minutes and one for 13 days. Some mornings I get up and run around resetting all of the digital clocks and timers for the coffee pot, stove, microwave, analog clocks, picked up a generator 2 days after Hurricane Sandy and a transfer switch.
The Verizon FiOS was fully in tact for the 13 days after Sandy. They had to install new poles and re-connect the feed to the house. Everything was out so with the generator ….we had internet & TV, a propane grill, a few lights, well water, hot water from the boiler and both refrigerators. That was a big help
Yep. Born in NOVA. Spent many years in Newport News (HS & college & some work). Also lived in Bristol 3 years. I have moved 14 times all around the country/world.
I lived in the Tidewater area for 10 years. My wife was born and raised in Chesapeake.
I was raised in a military family and then joined the Navy, so I have lived from Alaska to Florida and from California to Connecticut. With several stops in between.
I lived in the Tidewater area for 10 years. My wife was born and raised in Chesapeake.
I was raised in a military family and then joined the Navy, so I have lived from Alaska to Florida and from California to Connecticut. With several stops in between.
Me too. Dad was 29 years Corp of Engineers and retired from Ft Belvoir and we moved to Newport News. I am a Menchville HS and CNU grad (first class after it became a university) I was Newport News PD from 94 to 98. Army and VAARNG from 87 to 95. Then a fed for 26 and a half years. Hired out of Norfolk and first assignment was Portland, OR in 1999 before it got ruined. Thanks for serving.
Moving brings up several memories even at 71. We moved between 4 different states between the age of 7 and 16. NJ, Fl, NJ, FL, FL, FL, NJ, NJ. My parents were fighters..not professionally … for their own enjoyment. When they divorced in ‘66 we finally settled down. On the down side, I went to 5 elementary schools and 3 different high schools. Always the new kid.. you must noticed that with me being so shy and closed mouthed..
After high school and when I was going to college, I moved to Vermont until my wife and I were married in ‘78.. the worst part was being the new kid but the best part was experiencing the diversity across the east coast while all of the major cities were still in their infancy. Even as a kid there are so many things you notice. Where we have lived in the same spot now for 47 years…the transformation is incredible.
Since Vermont was economically stifled for me as a young man we moved to have good finances. If we had to move to NJ, we pick a very rural spot to emulate the territory we lived in… 95% of the farms are gone, development in RAMPANT and within another 5-7 years I think we’re toast. The property has appreciated like crazy.but, when I am near 80…where am I moving to!
VA
AL
WA
RI
Belgium (4 countries visited in 3 years)
IA
VA
VA
SC - (Army)
VA
(Deployments don't count I guess or you could add AL, Saudi and Kuwait here)
OR (New career!)
PR (Puerto Rico)
GA
Philippines (12 countries visited in 3 years!)
VA
GA - last stop
It has been an adventure. The only state I have not visited is Alaska and the only territories missing are Saipan and the Marianas.
@Hugh Heifer geez….thats some list. What’s the longest you have stayed somewhere? For me…its here
The original attempt was to keep my kids in the same school with the same friends where the originally started until high school graduation.
That last one was in 1999…
@Hugh Heifer geez….thats some list. What’s the longest you have stayed somewhere? For me…its here
The original attempt was to keep my kids in the same school with the same friends where the originally started until high school graduation.
That last one was in 1999…
Tokyo (born there)
Nevada
Mississippi
Alabama
Illinois
Georgia
Alaska
Alabama
Florida
California
Connecticut
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
I only attended 1 school for 2 consecutive years. Always the new kid as well. But I attended kindergarten and 12th grade in the same town
Childhood/early adult list:
AL
FL
AL
FL
AL
SC
AL
Married list:
GA
CA
GA
AL
Germany
AL
England
AL
FL
Saudi Arabia
AL
Counting house moves within the same vicinity, my wife and I have moved 15 times and we're not military. We have 4 children so many of those moves, including Germany and England were with multiple children. I hope to never move again.
Tokyo (born there)
Nevada
Mississippi
Alabama
Illinois
Georgia
Alaska
Alabama
Florida
California
Connecticut
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Alabama
I only attended 1 school for 2 consecutive years. Always the new kid as well. But I attended kindergarten and 12th grade in the same town
Childhood/early adult list:
AL
FL
AL
FL
AL
SC
AL
Married list:
GA
CA
GA
AL
Germany
AL
England
AL
FL
Saudi Arabia
AL
Counting house moves within the same vicinity, my wife and I have moved 15 times and we're not military. We have 4 children so many of those moves, including Germany and England were with multiple children. I hope to never move again.
And thanks for the kudos on the shop. Still a work in progress but they all are.
So we do not get toooo far off topic, here is a pic of the source side antenna. That took all darn day. I missed one strand on the plug outside and I about lost it trouble shooting until I got out a magnifying glass and found the strand just outside the receiver channel in the plug
I made the mounts out of a piece is sheet metal and some bits of left over conduit.
Getting close to 90mbps down out at the shop on a 10 year old 4gb ram laptop running Chrome OS. Achievement unlocked!
I tossed the receipts. It was about $150 to do what I did. Running some CAT5/6 out to a shop would be far more elbow grease but maybe cheaper if that was an option. For me it was not because my paved driveway was in the way. It was hard to configure but the end result was good.
My trench is 140’ from my source of the FiOS box. Dug that by hand and buried 1 1/2” conduit and pulled 160’ of cat 6, phone and RG-6 cable. It was sheer determination as my driveway to the pole barn is packed stone and gravel….pick and shovel all the way. Cardiologist said..” we’ll skip the stress test this time”
Since you all are talking internet can I ask a simple question?
Fiber was run to pole short distance from shop. Ecolink came by last week, says I have to cut at least 1” channel in sidewalk around shop to install. Ok, I get it liability for tripping hazard is reason why they have to have it. Never mind it’s at end of shop, dead end road super antisocial area.
My dilemma is how do I get best coverage throughout the shop? My air conditioned office is upstairs and all the exterior walls are foamed I’m sure they deal with this from time to time. Or would I have adequate coverage on east side of shop if I put it downstairs in the garage area.
Highly likely i will work upstairs more than I want for sure so i need that internet signal upstairs for sure. I’ve ordered the 1 gigabyte so I can watch some tv, stream it inside RV we will be living in. I’d like to be able to watch some TV both upstairs and downstairs while working both downstairs and upstairs.
So after that do you put it upstairs and everything downstairs gets adequate coverage or downstairs (easier) and risk not getting adequate signal upstairs?
Since you all are talking internet can I ask a simple question?
Fiber was run to pole short distance from shop. Ecolink came by last week, says I have to cut at least 1” channel in sidewalk around shop to install. Ok, I get it liability for tripping hazard is reason why they have to have it. Never mind it’s at end of shop, dead end road super antisocial area.
My dilemma is how do I get best coverage throughout the shop? My air conditioned office is upstairs and all the exterior walls are foamed I’m sure they deal with this from time to time. Or would I have adequate coverage on east side of shop if I put it downstairs in the garage area.
Highly likely i will work upstairs more than I want for sure so i need that internet signal upstairs for sure. I’ve ordered the 1 gigabyte so I can watch some tv, stream it inside RV we will be living in. I’d like to be able to watch some TV both upstairs and downstairs while working both downstairs and upstairs.
So after that do you put it upstairs and everything downstairs gets adequate coverage or downstairs (easier) and risk not getting adequate signal upstairs?
If your access point is inside just sort of centralize it. It's just like a house. The foam won't interfere at all. Since many of these buildings are big faraday cages, my network would not get inside from the house. The PTP antennas with the interior access point was my solution.
If you are running fiber into the building I assume that will be a seperate and new service with a new router. I would put it in the upstairs office area so you could plug in accessories if you want. Should work just fine.
A port switch may also be helpful…it’s kind of like a power strip for electricity. You can plug additional wired devices into it. I have had Verizon FiOS Gigabit service for over 8 years and it has been awesome. When I work remotely and upload files to the office, it takes under 5 seconds for some rather big files. To adequately cover this ranch house and pole barn, I have the ONT box from Verizon which distributes TV, Phone and Internet to the router. That router feeds a 24 port switch which has FiOS tv internet feed, Alexa feed, FireTV feed, my office hard wired computer, home alarm, several cameras and some other hard wired internet devices.
The main router also provides wi-fi to the house from the full basement. That router also feeds another router extender (also Verizon ) at the opposite side of the basement and a second wire fed router extender 160’ from the house underground into the pole barn. These router extenders provide full wi-fi throughout the house from the basement and the one in the pole barn gives me another option to add another switch to feed the Amazon Firestick, Alexa and a full wi-fi signal all around the pole barn and likely 200’ around the property.
It’s really nothing more than a feed connected to multiple broadcasting devices with hard wired capability…hard wire lines usually perform better than a wi-fi signal. My Speedtest result are usually over 500 hardwire and 200-350 with wi-fi. Note: they advertise “ up to 1 gigabyte” so some days it’s fast, other days it’s really fast. It it’s ever slower, there’s a problem
