[Magdalen] Internet puzzle?

[cady soukup]

In addition, geography (i.e. rocks & hills) and botany (LOTS of trees)
add to the fun for connectivity. Something like 3 companies went
bankrupt trying to put in cable for the 2 main roads in our county: US
211 (east-west) and US 522 (north-south). Too much rock for
underground. Never got a good deal from the power companies to use
their poles. Mike Mahoney likely knows more.

Cable companies really like a 'market' along the road - they want at
least 250 houses-per-mile to make it profitable to put in cable. Along
the 2.5 miles of my road, if I count the barns & sheds, there may be
40 'houses'!

All those who did live on US 211 /522 could have cable for the fee of
connecting their house to the cable (upwards of thousands of feet for
some farm houses). Those who did NOT live along those roads ... have
the option of using dial-up or towers.

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative has made it a priority to provide
connectivity to their customers, but I have not seen anything further
than the initial PR copy, so no details. Creating cooperatives for
internet access may be the only way it will work in today's for-profit
climate when so much of our 'take-it-for-granted' infrastructure is
not quite up to grade.

Cady

On 8/14/20, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Silly me, not even thinking of the wifi router needing to connect over the
> air so to speak. Living as I do in a very populated suburban area my wifi
> is provided via a fiber optic connection along with my TV and home phone
> (which I really don't use but it's part of the package). My cell phone uses
> the wifi when I'm in the house so it doesn't need to find a connection
> either.
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 3:30 PM cady soukup <cadyasoukup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Grace,
>>
>> Your phone has the ability to connect directly to a tower. Depending
>> on your plan, your wifi may have a separate connection - it isn't
>> connected to your phone, is it?
>>
>> Our phones may potentially connect to one of 4 towers in our area. Our
>> wifi is hard-connected by positioning to a single tower. Some days
>> both work, some days neither work. Most often one or the other is
>> slightly off.
>>
>> Cady
>> not too far north of you
>>
>> On 8/14/20, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Your wifi could be fine, but your ISP is not connecting to the internet
>> > I
>> > suppose. Brian or Chad might know more.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 3:17 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Can someone please explain why I can be sitting here with my phone and
>> my
>> >> laptop, with wifi on my phone and the laptop saying there’s no
>> >> internet
>> >> connection??  This has happened a couple of times lately...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Christopher Hart
>> >
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>> >
>>
>
>
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>
> Christopher Hart
>
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