[FRIAM] hijinks

[Steve Smith]

I'm signed up, waiting for Starlink to be available at my low latitude
(and as more service comes online).   I think they (or any Satellite
company) could do really good business on a low-volume, burst-demand
service...   to be used almost exclusively when your primary service is
down.   It seems like they could serve 10x the number of users @
$30/month than they could with more-full service @ $100/month .    I
tried talking my neighbors (4 total in an island 1/2 mile from anyone
else) into meshing up our network services (one does have satellite,
another has weak-antique copper-lines put in by the phone company 40
years ago) but they are not curious nor pro-active types.   I even
offered to boost my own service up to a scale that would cover *all* of
our bandwidth needs if *they* were providing *me* with the redundancy
*I* need.   Oh well.

I'm in a media hole, getting my internet via microwave off of Tesuque
Peak and no good wires/fiber close enough to link up with (and
right-of-way issues with the pueblo in any case).   No cell tower signal
even with a booster (intermittent enough to have tiny bits of txt squirt
through).  I have a clear view of the equatorial sky.   I use GoogleFi
and Roku streaming for phone/txt/TV which makes me entirely dependent on
that one little tower on a mountain with a 2 week supply of diesel for
the backup genny.   Snow has never taken them down (even deep/heavy) but
high winds sometimes repoint the antennae enough someone has to go up
and manually reposition them...  

If I were truly paranoid I suppose I'd jump on the IP over Ham Radio
bandwagon too and wrap my house in grounded copper mesh against the
potential Solar Storm/EMP that will probably take out global comms
(before a rogue asteroid takes out the biosphere).  

On 11/6/20 9:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> I’m fond of my fiber optic connection, but there’s a reason for
> considering Starlink as a backup.
>
> MSNBC is back now.  For a while it was just Fox News! !  (I have IPTV.)
>
>  
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith
> *Sent:* Friday, November 6, 2020 8:24 AM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] hijinks
>
>  
>
> My ISP (CNSP/NMSURF) went down at 1:30 yesterday afternoon and did not
> return until the wee hours this morning.   They reported that a major
> fiber cut *south* of ABQ was the cause and it took out their primary
> feed, but also a couple of secondary/tertiary feeds they usually can
> fall back on.
>
> I blame the Boogaloo Bois... or maybe the Cowboys for Trump with their
> backhoes....   do Antifa know how to operate heavy equipment?  Surely
> it is in their training protocol?   They seem more likely to actually
> have people who would know how to splice up broken fiber.
>
> On 11/6/20 9:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
>     Any ideas on what hijinks we’ll be seeing in the coming days? 
>
>      
>
>     My internet has been fluctuating in performance for 15 minutes or
>     so.   Of course, my first thought was a White House ordered cyber
>     operation on media/ISPs.
>
>      
>
>     Marcus
>
>
>
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