Finally, A Faster Connection

I have had a post in mind for the last couple of days, but I have been too busy exploring Google Earth to write it. I know this piece of software is not new to most of you, but I finally have an internet connection fast enough to use it.

Due to living in a hole, aka the bottom of a mountain hollow, I have been stuck with a very slow dial-up connection until the last week. I now connect over the powerlines. This is offered by IBEC with the cooperation of our rural electric cooperative. It has been a long time coming. After a lot of delays, it is finally working.

Compared to what many of you have in urban areas, the speed is not great. But it is about 10 times faster than what I had. As an example, I downloaded a 55 MB Photoshop brush file the other day. It took about 45 minutes. With my dial-up connection, it would have taken about 5½ hours.

This may not be all to the good, however. I see myself spending a lot of time doing things on the web that I couldn't do with the slow connection. Besides Google Earth, there is YouTube. Until the novelty wears off, I will probably be spending way too much time in this chair being basically unproductive. Oh, well, I am retired!