Turbocharged!
Sep. 4th, 2008 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDon't get me wrong, there's nothing more useful than being able to tether the BlackBerry to get Internet access when one is on the road or away from home. Having access in what often are implausible or expensive locations make you quite forgiving of the concomitant little slings and arrows, such as the inability to surf and talk on the phone at the same time, or the occasional plain-lousy connection.
Then there are the fundamental tether limitations of (a) only being able to use one machine at a time and (b) having to use Windows, i.e., not being able to use Linux at all.
Anyway, the installers from SkyWerx were just here and installed a broadband connection that works via a dish installed on the outside of the house. My XP machine, webster, operating via my wireless router, averages about 1200 kbps down and about 1200 kpbs up. On the other hand, my Vista tablet, hammer, is getting about 1300 kbps down but no higher than 300 kbps up, which is, at least, better than my upload speed was in Kazakhstan.
So, with the new service installed, does it make sense to keep the tethering capability on the BB? I seem also to recall Verizon saying that any change in service recycles one's two-year contract clock, though that may have changed since I heard it said.
Galina drove Alla down to Albuquerque yesterday, stopping at (very likely) every thrift shop along the way. I can only imagine how heavy Alla's luggage must have been at check-in.
I called Galina this morning, about 90 minutes prior to wheels-up and was told that she and Alla were in the security line at the airport, and that she'd call me back once things settled down. She did call back to say that Alla had made it to the gate.
Currently, I expect Galina is on her way home, although she told me she might stop at a Ford dealership along the way to have them look at the car, as it has begun to act strangely (further deponent saith not, and so I sit - so to speak - on tenterhooks).
Cheers...
Then there are the fundamental tether limitations of (a) only being able to use one machine at a time and (b) having to use Windows, i.e., not being able to use Linux at all.
Anyway, the installers from SkyWerx were just here and installed a broadband connection that works via a dish installed on the outside of the house. My XP machine, webster, operating via my wireless router, averages about 1200 kbps down and about 1200 kpbs up. On the other hand, my Vista tablet, hammer, is getting about 1300 kbps down but no higher than 300 kbps up, which is, at least, better than my upload speed was in Kazakhstan.
So, with the new service installed, does it make sense to keep the tethering capability on the BB? I seem also to recall Verizon saying that any change in service recycles one's two-year contract clock, though that may have changed since I heard it said.
Galina drove Alla down to Albuquerque yesterday, stopping at (very likely) every thrift shop along the way. I can only imagine how heavy Alla's luggage must have been at check-in.
I called Galina this morning, about 90 minutes prior to wheels-up and was told that she and Alla were in the security line at the airport, and that she'd call me back once things settled down. She did call back to say that Alla had made it to the gate.
Currently, I expect Galina is on her way home, although she told me she might stop at a Ford dealership along the way to have them look at the car, as it has begun to act strangely (further deponent saith not, and so I sit - so to speak - on tenterhooks).
Cheers...
