Connectivity Revisited

The Watcher on the Wall

Syracuse, New York, 1974

This photograph has absolutely nothing to do with the post below.

But I don't want miss an opportunity to point out that the most

important ability in photography is the ability to notice things.

 

Back in July I wrote about a persistent problem in RV living -- connectivity. You can read about it here. Most of us are at least some what dependent on our cell phones, tablets, computers, and smart TVs for social interaction, work, and entertainment, Those of us who live in RVs have more difficulty with connectivity because we don't have landlines, cable is not available in all campgrounds, and satellite reception is expensive and requires special equipment. The wifi provided in most campgrounds, if they have it all, is miserably slow.

After some experimentation, the solution we found for our connectivity problem was to use two cell-phone carriers. Louise and I have our cell phone service with Consumer Cellular. We also have a third line with them which feeds into the chip in a little mobile hotspot device we ordered from Amazon, The combination provides us with 50 gigs of data and costs about $96 a month,

The other part of the solution is the 100 gigs of data we get from T-Mobile for only $50 per month and which we access through another mobile hotspot.

We use the T-Mobile data for streaming TV and our Apple computers. My PC (main computer), for some reason will only run on Consumer Cellular data. We can use either for phones and iPads.

So this pretty much solved our connectivity problems. Except one.

When someone breaks a hip and spends a lot of time in front of the TV streaming NCIS, all bets are off! (Also, I have to confess to participating in binge-watching The Good Witch.) 

All this resulted in hitting the dreaded slowdown on the 20th for T-Mobile and the 24th for Consumer Cellular. Last night it was so bad I couldn't post. So that's why you're getting this in the afternoon rather than this morning.

Photographs and text copyright 2022, David B.Jenkins.

I post Monday, Wednesday, and Friday each week unless life gets in the way.

Soli Gloria Deo

For the glory of God alone