RTBTCKI Bandwidth
Posted By Kathleen David on March 25, 2020
Or Day 10 of the Homebound Saga otherwise know as Wednesday
One of the changes that will go into effect next week is remote schooling for the students in this area. The school board was smart and basically pulled two weeks out of the snow days they didn’t use and spring break which they moved. So at this point Caroline has not missed any school days.
Monday is the beginning of remote schooling and there will be a lot of computers and other electronic devices hooking into the local Internet all about the same time. I firmly expect there will be issues with this. There are times during the day that the bandwidth around here drops precipitously like when all the high schoolers get home from school.
We switched carriers because we were at the ‘end’ of the hub and furthest away from the origin of the signal. Since then we have Zippy the Internet and many fewer drop-outs or slow down. And we can download things at a reasonable speed. A TV show would take 2 hours to download on the old system if we were lucky but now 10 to 15 minutes and we are ready to play.
It will be interesting to see what is what next week.
I am working my way through my emotions along with helping my family and friends where I can. Online I find myself talking more about what I am cooking and the weather or the cats. We are checking in with each other and giving support to each other.
Offline I find myself calling my parents more often along with some friends who are seriously isolated due to health issues that make it imperative that they do physically distance themselves from the world.
I am planning to start writing letters to people because I think that would be fun.
Caroline and I have, weather permitting, been walking around the village. People are being polite to each other even keeping the six feet apart. There are doggies that Caroline has petted but she always washed her hands when she gets home.
In some ways it reminds me of what it was like post 9-11. We were checking in with each other and people were just nicer to each other. It was comfort in hard times. To know that people still have hearts and care about their fellow humans gave me hope for the world.
I do hope we come out of the other side of this better than when we went it.
Today it looks like rain and we will adjust accordingly.
Peter has a doctor’s appointment later. Now for appointment you have to answer a gambit of questions and only the patient can enter the office. I swear is it like that bridge in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I have my list of things I must do, need to do, and, last, want to do.
I am waiting to hear what is next for the area and how the country is doing but that is for later in the day.
Right now I have four cats napping in their favorite spots, a cup of coffee and a working Internet. And for now that is enough.
I am grateful for friendly greetings.
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