Thursday, January 22, 2009 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
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LD and cell tower, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, January 22, 2009
Verizon BroadbandAccess goes awry
Aaarg.... something's gone awry with my Verizon BroadbandAccess setup. I left Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM earlier than I had planned to because of access issues and now I can SEE the tower right out my back window, I get 4 EVDO bars on my cell phone, and BroadbandAccess still won't connect.
I spent two hours on the phone this afternoon with a tech (Victor) at 3gstore.com (the fine folks who sold me the Kyocera KR-1 router and USB720 modem I've been happily using for the past 15 months) diagnosing my setup and never did come up with an entirely convincing conclusion about why this modem won't connect. Everything checks out - but it won't connect.
We left it that I will go into Las Cruces tomorrow and find a fast connection so he can remotely tweek something in the firmware in the USB720 modem I'm using and see if that helps.
We also left it that I will seriously consider upgrading to a newer modem and router. It'll be a bit expensive but I'm thinking this might be the way to go. It turns out the Kyocera KR-1 router and USB720 modem I bought about 15 months ago were at the end of their product life cycle at the time and are not well supported anymore. I think I might bite the bullet and go ahead and replace them now rather than try and nurse them along any longer. Especially since two hours of nursing today didn't get me connected.
Aaarg.....
Night camp
Site 11 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Go to Leasburg Dam State Park website
- Locate Leasburg Dam State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Beware of Hypnotic Media
To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be. They have planned a life for you — from the cradle to the grave and beyond — which it would be easy, fatally easy!, to accept. The least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist’s command. Wake up, wake up — before you sign that seven-year contract, buy that house you don’t really want, marry that girl you secretly despise. Don’t reach for the whiskey, that won’t help you. You’ve got to think, to discriminate, to exercise your own free will and judgment. And you must do this, I repeat, without tension, quite rationally and calmly. For if you give way to fury against the hypnotists, if you smash the radio and tear the newspapers to shreds, you will only rush to the other extreme and fossilize into defiant eccentricity.