Maybe a free cellular service might get you by every now and then, like
FreedomPop. Or maybe a better option is to get yourself a high gain antenna and
hack ... err ahh tap some signals.
I tried to get COX here in N Scottsdale. It is routed to the packed
neighborhood nearby, but there are no polls to route cable to my house. Maybe
that was a good thing?
I use a local company, Desert Inet, wireless link to a tower at 40/10, no TV.
It has been pretty reliable but my son, who has 150/150 FIOS in MA, claims
there was some delay when he visited me. Then again, he is part of the Matrix.
And uses a high percentage of his bandwidth, lest anyone thinks it is overkill.
I can't fathom using DSL, much less 9600 baud, gasp!!, Life is too short as it
is.
I need to work, consult, zoom meetings, skype on occasion, upload photos to
backup, update visual studio or photoshop ... - actually do stuff on the
internet, besides the occasional OM post. I have a linux firewall setup and
rarely touch it.
WayneS
At 5/8/2019 10:37 AM, you wrote:
>Chris,
>
>Two things:
>
>1. Get yourself high speed internet at the house. Your life will
>improve greatly. If nothing else, get a MiFi from Verizon.
>
>2. Get yourself NordVPN (or equivalent). It's a game changer. You are
>trying to survive on just firewalling the bad guys out, but in
>reality, you have to completely isolate. The two ways to do that is
>with your own private hotspot (MiFi or home system), and a VPN.
>
>On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:57 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> At the coffee shop this morning the hacking and intrusions on the wifi
>> became so bad that I could barely look at a single email. News and weather
>> were out of the question. I refreshed my coffee and went home, connecting
>> with the dialup to take care of some needed evilBay purchases.
>>
>> I'm now at a city recreation centre, one of three that we have. The
>> wifi here works just fine as it is a part of the city's network rather than
>> a private commercial connection. Only thing is I have to disable the proxy
>> host which routes through localhost (127.0.0.1), port 8080. Don't know why
>> that it, but it doesn't seem to harm anything.
>>
>> It's really nice to have an uninterrupted high-speed connection. My
>> CPU/RAM monitor shows very little activity and no impairment.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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