Hiiigh Speeeeed!

At long last, I am on the High Bandwidth Freeway – sort of.  On Monday we finally got our high speed internet hooked up. But it made no sense to hook it up in this house, as we start moving to the new house in less than two weeks. So right now, less than 200 yards from where I sit, there is a Megabit speed, wireless router that would love to feed me the data I crave. It’s like the old song, “Anticipay-ation – is makin’ me late. Is keeping me waiting.”

Oh, well.  At least I know it’s there if I need it, and it will be there all the time after we move.

Why so slow to join the 21st century, you ask? Well, the short answer is that we live in the sticks. No cable service. No FiOS. No DSL. I could have gotten satellite internet service but A) it is very expensive to set up and B) the high latency of satellite makes me crazy.

Then came RoadStar Internet. These clever people have done for western Loudoun county what many cities are trying to achieve – area wide WiFi broadband coverage.  They put line of site towers on the ridgelines. They put repeaters in houses in the valleys. The antennae look like a medium pizza box on a stick.

The setup cost is less than half that of satellite. And there is very low latency – like 6 milliseconds low. And I am a happy man! Almost.