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    Laramie, Wyoming
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  1. Outages mostly take care of themselves. Uptime at our location is usually 95% or better. The outages usually occur when there's a break in the satellite coverage. Most of the time it's only for a few seconds while the system tracks in on a fresh set of satellites. Rebooting the system is easy if needed. It's all done from the app, and is just a couple of button pushes.
  2. We use it at our family cabin in the Bighorn Mountains of northern Wyoming. We have no grid power, no telephone lines, and no cell service. It works absolutely fantastic. Outages are fairly few and far between anymore (with the satellite constellation growing larger). It is lightning fast for being 30+ miles from nearest town of 3,000 people. Latency is generally 60-100 (incredible for remote locales). The equipment is, for the most part, plug and play. You can have some glitches that take a little basic IT knowledge to get through, but that is very rare. My 65yo parents seem to be able to set it up multiple times throughout the summer and not have any problems. It handles VOIP really well (wireless calling on your cell phone, team calls, etc.). High def streaming, at least in our area, works near perfectly. I am also surprised at how it's held up with being powered by a generator. If you are going to use it with a generator I would recommend one of the quiet, inverter-type generators with a pure-sine wave output made for sensitive electronics. We looked at several different types of satellite internet carriers, and Star Link is the best by far. We are also in an "under-utilized" area, so SpaceX actually moved our monthly payment down from $120 to $90/month. Totally worth paying that cost, even in the off-season, for stable communication at our cabin. My dad's health isn't so great, so it's good that they have good communication while at the cabin. I have been able to work remotely from there, and that has been great. Teams calls and meetings stream just like on broadband. You can also change it over to "roaming" with a click of a button. That way you can use it with your camper if you're travelling around. Please note, that if your home-base for the system is in a congested area you may have trouble switching it back to the home address. You need pretty decent sized clear area to make the most of the system. In my personal experience, I would say a clear area without trees/overhead obstructions of 5,000-10,000sqft is ideal for optimal performance. The app has a built in sky-mapper that you can try out to see if there is enough area for the system at your locale (if I recall correctly). Hope this helps!
  3. This is probably a little too on the nose, but that's like being mad at James Earl Jones for providing the voice for Darth Vader. OANN is entertainment masquerading as news for the dumb. Honestly, I would be surprised if she agrees with much of what she said.
  4. Here are a few from around Wyoming: Haystack Mountain - Wind River Range Hazelton Road - Bighorn Mountains Mitchell Peak - Wind River Range Mount Hooker (1600ft vertical granite wall) and Baptiste Creek - Wind River Range
  5. LOL. Authoritarian societies make everything so much easier to deal with.
  6. This video and the plan are the final form of parents blaming schools for the failure of parents to, well, parent. Some real bangers in this one: "Our public schools have been taken over by the radical left maniacs." "Direct the department of justice to open civil rights investigations." "The Marxisim being preached in our schools is also totally hostile to Judeo-Christian teachings and in many ways it's resembling an established new religion." So now we are concerned about the establishment of religion in schools? "On day one we will begin to find and remove the radical zealots and Marxists who have infiltrated the Federal Department of Education. And that also includes other, and you know who you are." Oh yeah, that's the good stuff. Mmmm, yes. Direct us to which group of people to hate and fear, fascist daddy. In all seriousness, who makes the determination on who is a "radical zealot" or "Marxist" in this plan? "We will create a new credentialing body." Also know as the "NCB." "Step 1. Abolish teacher tenure for grades K-12. So we can remove bad teachers..." Why abolish teacher tenure, when you can just have the "NCB" round the bad teachers up and execute them on campus? I kid, but I still fail to see how the President directing the department of education to round up all the "radical zealots and Marxists" is considered the ultimate form of local control? Is this really a problem in our schools? I know several teachers, and I wouldn't consider any of them as being radical. More like...boring.
  7. LOL, we (Wyoming, yes Wyoming) have a win streak currently of 6 on Hawaii. Go back to the kiddie table with your lame shit.
  8. You mean another recent Bowl winning team that has a track record of competing fairly well out of conference? not sure if serious.
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