zannej
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Shan, I hope the change in pace gives you time to recover. Spicoli, glad to hear your bp is down. Mine is always high when I go to the dentist, but they take it with my feet elevated and right after I walked through the door and have been dealing with traffic. For some reason I always hit every single red light on the way there and get stuck behind people who go 10 to 15 miles under speed limit. LOL. Or the ones that speed up and slow down constantly.
I've still been feeling cruddy. Mostly tired. Internet has been barely working. Tried to load this forum to post earlier and it wouldn't load. My ISP has been barely usable even though I don't think we are capped yet. But it has been raining. I also wonder if they realized we ordered Starlink. Anything involving Starlink seems to not want to load.
Dried mangos would sound good if I didn't hate mangos. LOL I don't know why, but I've never liked them.
I briefly popped in to see my friend, gave him a hug and spotted him gas $ and brought him more groceries. His gf was there to temporarily watch the baby long enough for her to pawn him off on someone else. She was calling someone to come watch him while we were there. She looked absolutely miserable. I got to hold Nightmeow and saw his eyes needed cleaning. I left him inside so he wouldn't chase after my truck.
The good news now: Starlink is coming! It should be arriving Monday and we have a 30 day trial period. If it doesn't work we can return it all for a full refund. We have 14 days to get it working before their billing starts.
So now we need to figure out how to mount Dish McFlatface to the house. Dishy needs to face north. The front corner of our house is North.
That is over the porch so I'm thinking I could do an eaves mount closer to the wall of my room. No trees on that side to get in the way. Dishy apparently can adjust itself. You turn it on, tell it to search and it moves around until it finds optimum location. It even moves with satellites it locked on to throughout the day to maintain the best connection.
Now, the problem is, it only comes with a ground mount that you just set on the ground. With cows in the mix, that won't work. But the attachments they sell won't arrive until March if we order them. Our Viasat renews on the 12th and I'm hoping we can have what we need before then to get it working so we won't have to pay for both ISPs in the same month. Mom doesn't want to spend a lot of $ on the mount so I'm wondering if I can repurpose something or get something like this: Amazon.com
I could either build some sort of blocking to support it lower on the eaves (which might be a pain) or modify the arms/collar attachment to let it sit lower down and with the arms spread further. Worst case, I could ditch the arms and come up with my own rig for the collar. If we aren't happy with it but it works we can still order the official eaves mount.
Other customers used that rig for Starlink's Dishy.
Another alternative would be to build a non-penatrating frame that straddles the ridge. I wish we could find magnets strong enough to adhere it to the roof though. Putting it on the ridge would make the cable run longer.
Next order of business is getting the ethernet connections to work as the modem has no ethernet ports and is wireless only. But my devices are wireless so that shouldn't be an issue for me. Eventually we can get a Mesh system set up, but as long as it works better than our existing ISP we should be OK.
I'm very excited about getting away from Viasat. It was so bad I had to drive to McDonalds to use their wifi just to look this stuff up!
Another good thing is that this has pushed my brother to agree to cleanup the living room with me bc he desperately wants to have Starlink by his birthday (which is Wednesday). Weird to think my baby brother will be 42.
Sorry for the verbal diarrhea. Got dizzy while cleaning earlier and then racked out for most of the day.
I've still been feeling cruddy. Mostly tired. Internet has been barely working. Tried to load this forum to post earlier and it wouldn't load. My ISP has been barely usable even though I don't think we are capped yet. But it has been raining. I also wonder if they realized we ordered Starlink. Anything involving Starlink seems to not want to load.
Dried mangos would sound good if I didn't hate mangos. LOL I don't know why, but I've never liked them.
I briefly popped in to see my friend, gave him a hug and spotted him gas $ and brought him more groceries. His gf was there to temporarily watch the baby long enough for her to pawn him off on someone else. She was calling someone to come watch him while we were there. She looked absolutely miserable. I got to hold Nightmeow and saw his eyes needed cleaning. I left him inside so he wouldn't chase after my truck.
The good news now: Starlink is coming! It should be arriving Monday and we have a 30 day trial period. If it doesn't work we can return it all for a full refund. We have 14 days to get it working before their billing starts.
So now we need to figure out how to mount Dish McFlatface to the house. Dishy needs to face north. The front corner of our house is North.
That is over the porch so I'm thinking I could do an eaves mount closer to the wall of my room. No trees on that side to get in the way. Dishy apparently can adjust itself. You turn it on, tell it to search and it moves around until it finds optimum location. It even moves with satellites it locked on to throughout the day to maintain the best connection.
Now, the problem is, it only comes with a ground mount that you just set on the ground. With cows in the mix, that won't work. But the attachments they sell won't arrive until March if we order them. Our Viasat renews on the 12th and I'm hoping we can have what we need before then to get it working so we won't have to pay for both ISPs in the same month. Mom doesn't want to spend a lot of $ on the mount so I'm wondering if I can repurpose something or get something like this: Amazon.com
I could either build some sort of blocking to support it lower on the eaves (which might be a pain) or modify the arms/collar attachment to let it sit lower down and with the arms spread further. Worst case, I could ditch the arms and come up with my own rig for the collar. If we aren't happy with it but it works we can still order the official eaves mount.
Other customers used that rig for Starlink's Dishy.
Another alternative would be to build a non-penatrating frame that straddles the ridge. I wish we could find magnets strong enough to adhere it to the roof though. Putting it on the ridge would make the cable run longer.
Next order of business is getting the ethernet connections to work as the modem has no ethernet ports and is wireless only. But my devices are wireless so that shouldn't be an issue for me. Eventually we can get a Mesh system set up, but as long as it works better than our existing ISP we should be OK.
I'm very excited about getting away from Viasat. It was so bad I had to drive to McDonalds to use their wifi just to look this stuff up!
Another good thing is that this has pushed my brother to agree to cleanup the living room with me bc he desperately wants to have Starlink by his birthday (which is Wednesday). Weird to think my baby brother will be 42.
Sorry for the verbal diarrhea. Got dizzy while cleaning earlier and then racked out for most of the day.
