Back at the farm

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Turned out to be quite the busy day for not having anything planned.

The cell service at the new house is very problematic - I get good reception when I am outdoors on the deck but it drops off to nothing when I am inside. Foil vapor barrier in the insulation. I stopped at the cell store yesterday and they had a Wi-Fi mini-cell spot available for free so I got it. Connected it to my router and my broadband service slowed to a crawl and the lights on the Ethernet link were blinking steadily - it was hoovering up all of my bandwidth. Ran some diagnostics and it was the mini-cell unit - nothing else.

I unplugged it for a while to watch some YouTube videos and then plugged it back in and went to bed. Woke up this morning and had the same thing - huge bandwidth use and lousy internet for my other computers (I have a 1GB installation and routinly get 800Mb to 900Mb over a Wi-Fi link and was getting 1 or 2Mb with the mini-cell plugged in). I left it connected overnight in case there was some mamoth software update that was needed - no update should take more than 20 minutes over a Gig Ethernet connection...

Returned it to T-Mobile - I have a cell amplifier but it is for the older bands and will not support the 4G LTE frequencies so forking over $200 to Amazon for a new unit.

Ran a couple other errands and drove up here - dinner in Bellingham. Surf for a bit and then to bed - working tomorrow clearing out my storage locker and moving stuff to the condo.

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