Our house is deep in a canyon in the SF Bay Area green belt. That means no cell signal and terrible internet choices. We have ATT 768kbps downloads on a good day for DSL, which we've supplemented with Exede metered satellite that has a 150GB data cap. We hit the data cap regularly, and the speed is still pretty slow during the day, <600Kbps (capital this time) on a Sunday as I post this. Peak can his 2-3 Mbps in the middle of the night, but it's still metered.
Hence, today I cut down four trees to clear a ground level line of sight to a tower just installed at the top of the canyon. Hopefully 20mpbs+ internet is only a week or two away, with 500gb and up limits. I did manage to clip the well house with the pine tree, but it only tore the rain gutter partly off and somewhat damage a nearby kumquat tree. One of the oaks and the pine were healthy, so I mourn them, but one oak so rotten inside that I cut 1/3 of the way through the trunk when it fell. Another was rotten in the core, about 4" in diameter. Now I think I need to go cutting down a bunch of oaks so they fall where I want them to fall, instead of onto buildings on their own schedules.
My shoes were so covered in forget-me-not seeds, it's scary. I could seriously start packaging and selling them online, considering how many of these damn things we have.
The terrestrial wireless internet company uses Ubiquiti hardware, so I've been building a Ubiquiti mesh. I absolutely hate our Aruba "industrial quality" network. Utter garbage - totally unreliable. The Ubiqiti gear is pretty darned nice in comparison.
