Internet Access

One of the challenges of life in the mountains is getting electronic access to the outside world. To get a decent cell phone signal we have to plug a cell signal booster into our DSL modem. That works well as long as the DSL is up and running. And we are not utilizing the DSL signal for anything else. Which brings us to bandwidth. One of the best bumper stickers we have seen locally reads, “Will Work for Bandwidth”. There’s no hope of anything resembling broadband anytime in the near or not so distant future. But it’s nice when we get the bandwidth for which we are signed up. Without having run a speed test recently we knew we were running below promised speed just by the amount of buffering anytime we attempted to watch a video. So today preparatory to calling Frontier to complain, we ran a speed test and were pleasantly surprised that our download speed exceeded the 1.5 mps that we should be getting. We celebrated by watching an episode of Foyle’s War on Netflix with no buffering whatsoever!