We’re on satellite now :-)
We were in São Francisco a few days ago for a few bits and bobs when we noticed a shop which did satellite internet connections. We’d tried to get satellite …
Simaltaneous failure
Yesterday when we were meditating there was a sudden crashing collapsing sound nearby. At first we thought it was a tree falling, but then realised that the fire wood storage …
Oba! our net connection just got WAY better!!!
Our new big antenna’s been awesome, it always gets a usable 3G connection (even though it’s only zero or one bar signal) and always gets a four or five bar …
Antenna 2.0
Well here it is, the long-awaited Antenna 2.0 blog post! Our net’s been getting worse and worse over the last year, not only slower, but also we have a long …
The awesome power of gambiarra
Now that we’re on a daily schedule we seem to be getting a lot more done on the land even though we have so much meditation to do each day! …
Ai ai ai :-/
“Ai ai ai” is “Oiyoiyoi” in Portuguese. Beth talked to our neighbour Ziza about our chewed pipe and cables in the swamp and she said it’s most likely a Ratão …
PVC pipe doesn’t cut it out here in the wilderness!
When we first laid our LAN and power cables between the house and the antenna on the hill for our rural net connection, we just had them naked and hammered …
Week forty
This week the first thing we did is put “petropoly” onto all the roofing nails as we’ve been having quite a bit of leaking going on when it rains heavily. …
Week thirty two
I decided to start this week by doing some more finishing touches to the net connection, getting the pipe installed nicely into the house and attaching some permenant cabling and …
Week thirty one
This has probably been the most frustrating week we’ve had so far. On the day we were going to come back to the land the car had a flat tyre, …