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Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:48:16 +0000

[...] there I go digressing once again. It’s just a good thing we now have our MiFi for internet service redundancy! I could think of worse places than Slab City, USA to be waiting on parts. Ones that cost money for [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:02:25 +0000

Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately the only options we’ve found are redundancy, and watching our bandwidth … very closely!

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:19 +0000

A friend of mine pointed me here when I wrote about my FAPing woes today. We are camphosting at a forest service campground in Alabama. The FS provided us with Hughesnet as a means of getting internet service so they can keep in contact with us. We were FAPed the second day online, and two more times in a week before we finally called tech support at Hughes and figured out what the problem was.

Now that we know, we are trying to monitor usage to avoid getting bumped off. I have a Verizon Aircard that we put on “vacation” while we are here, but might just have to bite the bullet and turn it back on. I have considered that option, too. If you find any other options or solutions, please do let me know.

By: AKC

AKC — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:05:22 +0000

Jim,
hope downloading your b-day card did not cause you to get FAP’d . You got a MiFi? That is very nice.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:28:25 +0000

OMG! You heard us talking. I was just asking Rene whatever happened to Rikki, and you commented…

We have a real house too, with a fireplace, endless running hot water, porcelain toilets and all! And tomorrow we’re winterizing it and headed back out onto the open. Time to head south for the winter.

It’s great to hear from youn and that Fox is well. Traveling 8 feet just doesn’t sound the same!

By: Rikki

Rikki — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:57:48 +0000

I don’t miss this one bit! I have a real house now that doesn’t roll away, with a real desk where my computer and I can sit, with real internet connection.

The changes in our lives is so overwhelming that we haven’t blogged in a while, but know that we’re here watching.

And Fox is hangin in there, looks like he’s staying til we get to Canada.
xoxoxo

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:34:16 +0000

Thanks for the tip Brent! Since I’m the mac guy around here (René is on Windoze), I may look into SurplusMeter for monitoring my own bandwidth.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:32:32 +0000

Thanks for the comment Rob! We might just look into that, though I doubt we’ll be investing in a totally new system to replace our MotoSat setup anytime soon.

By: Rob Hopkin

Rob Hopkin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:50:42 +0000

Hi Jim & Renee

Have you thought about a mobile land Vsat? On the boats we use them without too much hassle. Sea Tel is the manufacturer but KVH market them in the U.S. Boat system prices are scary but land based prices should be better in the US than here in Spain and the E.U. Just a thought.

Wish Verizon would set up here. Vodafone and Telefonica seem to have it wrapped up. BTW – that Satellite finder utility is about the coolest thing I’ve ever seen (how geeky am I?) and will be using it with the boats. Got an East to West Atlantic crossing coming up and will try it half way through on the Inmarsat birds.

All the best.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:18:46 +0000

You might also try SurplusMeter.

It will monitor your actual NIC to determine the amount of bandwidth used on a daily basis. Won’t totally solve your problem since it doesn’t monitor Hughes and is reporting usage only by the computer that it is installed on. However, it is a Mac app and may help you track down the things that you are doing that are bandwidth intensive.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20884/surplusmeter