08 January 2009

Technical difficulties

We have been plagued by technical difficulties lately. The one camera we own that takes movies died. Then our internet died, so we had to get someone out here to fuss with the antenna. "Antenna?", you ask. Our internet is wireless, so the antenna on our roof need to be realigned. It's a directional antenna with a 120 degree field of view, so how far off could it possibly have been? 120 degrees, apparently. The service dude attempted to solve the problem by installing a "stinger", which narrows the antenna aperture to about 60 degrees. I presume that this stinger contraption is a slightly higher Q receiver. Time will tell whether or not the stinger does any good. So far so good, since for the last 12 hours we have had internet connectivity. If antenna reception begins to degrade I'll find out the GPS coordinates for the tower and do this, or maybe this.

We remedied the camera sichee-ashun with a trip to Best Buy. Now that we have a camera that is both modern and operational there is no excuse for us not to post things like this:


1 comment:

Amy said...

So cute!! I love the little noises.