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July 28th, 2019

2018, I was approached by a tourist living in the neighborhood. He will be living in Canada for six months and he couldn’t get internet service. He was unable to signup for an account due to not having a permanent address. He offered to pay for everything, however, he didn’t want to invest in proper equipment. The challenge was to get a WiFi single over 900ft, approximately a quarter of a kilometer away. I told him it was a long shot, however, it hasn’t been tried with modern routers. We were successful at 950 feet.

April 2nd, 2017

Did you know, 1 gigabyte of data could equal 1024 megabytes. Please check with your service provider if they measure data in decimal or binary units. I will explain how much internet usage 5 gigabytes (GBs) per month provides you.

January 24th, 2015

The time old question about how much more powerful desktop computer processors have changed in the past few year can be answered. I will take a sample of processors from around 2009/2010 and provide a basic comparison between present day 2014 processors. Note that models and equivalent of each time period is difficult to gauge and can be very subjective, I tried to find fair comparisons. This write up also focuses on the basics and most noticeable changes in technology and trends.