April Midwest Blizzard

Hi Canada and MDKMDK,

We go up there frequently as it's only a couple hundred miles from our home or less. My wife has close relation living in Canada and one was a university professor who was part of the original healthcare design team that devised your original healthcare system before your Gov had messed it up.

We have several connectivity methods in Michigan and elsewhere in the USA. Cable, phone lines like DSL etc, cell towers all over that overlap coverage by miles of distance and the biggest by far is Verizon which covers most of every single state, several satellite systems too such as Hughesnet for one that has over a million individual subscribers alone just in the USA, and other systems also. If you want Internet in the USA there's a way to have it whether you are in the desert, on top of a mountain, or even in the middle of one of the huge Great Lakes and/or most of the oceans areas. Then there's also the Delorme InReach System the serious remote hikers and explorers use.

Connectivity is not expensive at all in the USA and is very reliable. Our cable, Charter Spectrum, give us 100 MB speed here for out 6 putters (4 of which are laptops), and our 2 cells and the Jet Pack MIFI and our 2 tablets all have hot spots connectivity plus towers and are 4G which is most anywhere in the USA. We travel a lot and serious boat a lot and know.

For satellite system Internet, the only musts are that you can see the area of the proper satellite in the sky and have a receiver, a dish antenna, and be subscribed.

This is what we experience and have.

Canada is not a 3rd world country to us at all, it's just the land and friends in the country to the north of us and yes, very friendly! Our neighbors!

MDKMDK wrote:

drsteve wrote:

travelnutz wrote:
drsteve,

Must be inland and away from Lake Michigan?

South of Lansing. Middle of the mitten.

Our power is out currently.

Wow, your computer's magic smoke is keeping it connected to the internet, and the ISP's connections are up, and everything else is working as normal, without power? That's amazing. :h

I have one of those generator thingies. I suspect the ISP does too.

Yup, drsteve, they do and they work fine and so does mine at home, (5,000 watt gas with a compact car automotive muffler I put on it and it's nearly all enclosed so it's not loud at all, just hums), if required or wanted or the generator thingy's in both RV's (a 3400 watt built in PP Generac and an EU 2000 watt Honda) too!

Have a 2500 watt inverter with 5 group 31 12V deep cycle batteries - 225 minutes each at a 23 amp draw in the 5th wheel + 2 more of the same in the bed of the truck wire cabled with #2 gauge fine strand welder cable for both + and - to the truck's diesel engine dual alternators. All for the 5th wheel AC when not on the shore power grid. For the big Lance TC, a 1500 watt inverter and 3 of the same batteries for it, (one in the TC compartment and the 2 in the bed of the truck on the driver's side ahead of the rear wheel well and all are connected together when the TC is on. Real freedom! Some peoples idea of overkill so I've been told many times but certainly not to us and been the norm for much longer than 10 years now. Got my first inverter back in 1983, a Heart interface 1800 watt, and our inverter use had become the norm with many more for our cabined boats/sailboats and all RV's since!

Loaded for bear or what ever having lots of standalone AC power we may need or want anywhere anytime and all are right here parked at home on our property unless we are traveling and then it goes with us with either the TC or the 5th wheel.