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glynor:
Woohoo! I've been largely absent for a couple weeks as we've been in the process of moving. We're all moved in, for now, and unpacking is somewhat done. This is only move #1 (we sold our house, are in a summer rental while we look for and buy a new house), so we get to do it all again soon.

However, I've been stressing because the rental doesn't have cable and is pretty far back in the woods. Beautiful, but cell service is weak and getting an ISP may have been a real struggle.

But the local phone company said they have DSL service (cruddy 1.5mbps service, but that's better than none) and sent me a modem. I spent a bunch of time on Friday trying to get it set up, on the phone with tech support, and couldn't get it to get sync. They said they were sending a tech "sometime in the week" but I worried that there was just no DSL available here.

But, the tech called and came today (pleasant surprise). He just left (after fixing a line problem a bit down the road), and I got sync! Yes! An unplugged summer wouldn't have been the worst thing possible, but I'm sure happier with it than without.

Got to get the network all re-done in wireless fashion (sigh, but it is a rental) but I'm in a lot happier place now than this morning!

lepa:
Cool. Staying in the same city? I've been pondering whether I should change ADSL to cable modem to get some more uplink bandwidth. I now have 2mbps but it would be nice to stream maximum quality video to JRemote. Also have been playing with Owncloud with Raspberry which also would benefit better outgoing traffic.

This got me thinking that it would be great if MC could also be used like cloudserver so I could send my pictures and other stuff from Gizmo/JRemote or could share dropbox type links for friends. Of course some sort of secure connection to server would be must in that case.

Arindelle:
ouch 1.5mbs my upload is 5x faster. Under 70mBs I get impatient.  Do you have humanoid neighbors Glynor or just Moose ?!  ;D

glad to see you have a plan, though, I've got to sell my house and not looking forward to it at all. Never though about "summer rentals" might be something I should look into.

jmone:
ouch is right..... I think I have a 1200/75 baud modem you can borrow.   ;D

astromo:
glynor, major respect for doing a double move.

I wimped out last year when I moved from the apartment I'd been in for years to finally getting a house. Took the costly move of buying the new joint, cleared out the old place and then did the sale. As low stress as you can get. Also helped by a move less than half a mile.

Hope you get more pleasant surprises. Sometimes the world can play nice.

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