Kevin B. Carpenter

Internet and the Rainy Season

I really love this time of year in Costa Rica.  We get a afternoon rain most every day, and sometimes they are real shows.  Thunder so close and loud you feel the static in your hair.  No I don’t care to be trying a bolt on for size, but having grown up in Washington State, here I get the best of both worlds; though I miss the snow.

The first time we lived here after 9/11/2001, I had to regress to dial-up from a high speed cable connection.  This time when we moved back in 2005, I was able to get cable modem in the house.  The speeds are not quite what we get in the states, however for reliability it was pretty much no problems for two years.

Working from home required a bit more bandwidth and so a few weeks ago I ordered an upgrade.  Its worked great for a couple weeks, but since last week we were lucky if we were online for two to four hours a day.  Worse sometimes that was only in the middle of the night.

The tech’s yesterday re-checked and calibrated the cables and connections through the switch and hopefully we are good to go.   Time will tell, however for the first time in a week I woke to see the cable modem still connected and running strong.