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post saga
And the world shrugged. After all the waiting and wanting, it’s finally here. And life goes on, the way it should be. No confetti dropped from the ceiling. I just immediately set to all the things I’d ever wanted internet for and it was good. Alex and I played a metric ton of video games […]
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this battlestation is fully operational
Internet saga complete. I’m speechless. Time to get my downloads on, yo!
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manual labor
As you may know, we’ve been living in the communications dark ages since we moved to Orford. In November of 2009, I installed one of these on the house to bring a cell signal inside. I’m not sure why the price on these has jumped, but I definitely didn’t pay $450. With a reliable signal […]
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months, maybe weeks
I rolled down my window and spoke with a Fairpoint worker on my way home yesterday. She was parked in my neighbor’s driveway, which made me very excited. I said, excuse me miss, you must get this question a lot but… when can we has internetz? Weeks, months, years? She responded diplomatically and said she […]
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let there be red tape
Wow. Okay, got a phone call from Topsham on Friday at home. Naturally, I wasn’t able to hear that message and then respond until today (Monday). Apparently a crew came to the house on Thursday or Friday and discovered that power and communications run from the pole to my house underground. They won’t perform that […]
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let there be light
If you’ve been following my noble quest to sit around and wait helplessly for internet, you know that I’ve been savagely beaten at every turn for 5 years. Well, it’s time for Ben to take back the night…. with light. That’s right. Fiber optics, my friends. To recap, there are theoretically two providers now operating […]
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htpc realized (semi)
I’m surprised I haven’t done a review for the home theater PC I put together a week or so ago. I think it’s because I’m still working out the kinks – 3 weeks and I still haven’t finished loading the drives with all my video and we don’t have internet yet so it’s always going […]
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nearly there
I pulled around the corner yesterday evening on the way home and, POW! This is the fabled equipment pad I made reference to in my htpc post. Equipment! There’s a third set of conduit sticking up through the concrete awaiting treatment, and I have no idea what this means in the continuum of bringing internets […]