Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] Found a Project:

30 December 2012

Re: [DIY] Found a Project:

We just never know how good we have it until we hear from others. I have a cousin that lives about 35 miles from Phoenix, AZ and they are still on dial-up.

Dale in the Flatlands.

Kathryn Berck wrote:

You're pretty lucky. I live within half a mile of a major freeway and three miles of a county seat (population over 25K), have lots of neighbors and businesses in the area, but my internet connection is a Verizon hotspot, limited to 3G per month and sometimes slower than molasses. When I want to download anything substantial, like podcasts for my Ipod, I take the laptop to the town library where wifi is free.

On 12/29/2012 3:24 PM, Dale S wrote:

The problem is that we are on a wireless link to the main server and when all the kids are home from school it gets a little slow. Also we were using Pandora and I think they may have been overloaded over the holidays. They have fiber in the rural area but because our little town is too big they were not able to get the grant to bring fiber into the city. They were able to use fiber for the back-haul on the radio links though which did help. Just one of the small prices we pay for the peace and quiet of rural America.

Dale in the Flatlands.
Bob Davis wrote:

I'm surprised your network won't handle audio streaming without pausing. What sort of network do you have?

You have a great project going.

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale S
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:30 PM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DIY] Found a Project:

With temps that refuse to get above 20 degrees I was in dire need of a project. I bought an Android tablet several months ago in anticipation of taking a trip back to the east coast which for various reasons did not materialize, so what to do with a nearly useless piece of equipment. I finally connected it to a good speaker system and and used it to play Christmas music but that too was a little less than ideal since there would be pauses due to overload on the network. Momma loves her music and she finally wore out her las CD player and multi disc players are becoming increasing hard to find so Wa-La, a project was born. I'm now converting a 20 year collection of CD's to MP3 format and loading them onto the tablet. Now the little lady of the house can select a play list that play for days at a time before repeating and should theoretically last forever. The trees may be in full leaf by the time I am finished.

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Dale in the Flatlands.