johnny November 7th, 2008
On 2008/10/25 at 12:11 PM, Brent wrote:
Hey guys,
Currently working my way through your all your postings. My wife and I are in the “can we really do this” stage of making the same change that you two have. Very much enjoying reading through your process.
Much like you two, we both work in technology and are somewhat dependent on the Internet. Add to that, the need for research / blogging / and potentially some work while traveling and connectivity gets to be one of our important decisions. So I’m curious, how are you feeling about the cell network decision versus satellite? Working out as you had planned?
Brent
Well, Brent, I’d have to say I don’t like any of the choices available. I’m pretty happy with the performance of EVDO, but I’m extremely upset with Sprint changing the contract midstream so that it no longer remotely resembles the class of service that we originally purchased. I have already ranted about this particular event once, so I’ll try and stay on subject…
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Hitek Homeless July 23rd, 2008
The Truck:
2001 Ford F-350 Lariat
- Dual rear wheels
- Crew cab
- 4×4
- 7.3L Diesel (International)
- Timbrens
- Front and rear cargo haulers
The Camper:
2008 Arctic Fox 1140
- Wet bath
- Couch seating
- Full-wall cabover wardrobe
- 9k BTU Air conditioner
- No oven or microwave (more storage!)
- Thermal pane windows
The Bikes:
- Trek RST 3700
- Roketa MC-17-50T (Sicily)
The Internet:
Sprint EVDO service (for now you greedy bastards!)
- Novatel U727 EVDO card
- Cradlepoint CT350 Wifi router
- Dual-band Omni-directional external antenna
- 3 Watt Bi-Directional Dual-Band EVDO amplifier
The Network:
- Fujitsu Lifebook 1510
- Dell Vostro 1500
- ReadyNAS 600 (700GB RAID5)
- 2 Cowon A2’s for random movie/music access
The Blog:
- Wordpress
- Gallery2 image gallery
- WAY too many plugins
- Feeds by Feedburner
- Hosting by HostGator
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johnny June 13th, 2008
As we’ve mentioned, we spent the last week in a beautiful campsite in the middle of nowhere. The only downfall to this Utopian site was the complete and utter lack of cell coverage in the area.
After working over a decade in the industry, we’re officially internet junkies. We use it for everything: Researching campsites, routes, fuel stops and sightseeing trips. Entertainment, banking, paying bills, investments. And today’s favorite topic: the life and times of the garden variety yellow jacket.
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johnny April 26th, 2008
Ok, so it’s fun to make your own booze and all, but Jenn’s parents are reading, so let’s change the subject for a day or two.
Today, in the midst of working on a half dozen things and finishing none of them, I managed to temporarily frag our Cradlepoint (the EVDO/wifi access point). Now, there was nothing wrong with the device that clearing my browser cache wouldn’t fix, but it took a call to tech support to have the obvious pointed out to me. Cradlepoint has an excellent support team by the way.
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johnny November 17th, 2007
It’s been a pretty good start to the weekend. We’ve managed to get rid of 5-6 bags of old clothes and a couple more computers. Jenn has been putting some of the more hobbyist related computer equipment on ebay and actually getting a fair bit of cash for some of our old toys. We still have a handful of things to list, but it’s encouraging to know we may get a little cash for things I was expecting to have to haul off for recycling.
Last night, I finally found the reason I was having so much trouble getting WDS to work between the cradlepoint 350 abnd the linksys running openwrt. Apparently, WDS support was completely broken on the cradlepoint prior to firmware 1.7. So if WDS is beating you, check your firmware version on the cradlepoint. Once the firmware was updated, WDS was pretty easy to get setup.
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