I bought the Wilson Sleek 4G-V in order to boost my Verizon 4G LTE cellular signal at the mountain cabin. But first I gave it a try at home. It’s designed for mounting in a car, but I also bought the separate Home/Office Accessory Kit which includes a desktop cradle, a suction cup window mount [...]
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Verizon 4G LTE in Wrightwood – Finally!
One day back in March, I was walking around town, and my Verizon iPhone 5 switched from 3G to 4G LTE! But only one bar of signal.
Outdoor Home Office
I work from a home office, and now with the warmer weather (at least in Southern California) I’ve been looking to spend some of that time working outside. Though the biggest obstacle to doing so is being able to see my laptop screen in the sunlight. So I bought a Compushade for my laptop, here’s what [...]
Technology at the Mountain Cabin
I’ve posted many times here on this blog about my latest gizmos at my cabin in the Southern California mountains, but it’s been piecemeal and I’ve never summarized everything in one place. Hence, this post. Below is a photo of my “network closet” in the crawl space. I use the crawl space because it says [...]
New Cradlepoint MBR95 Router for Cabin
I’m at a crossroads with my internet connection at the mountain cabin, in a small town with a population of 5,000. A long time ago, I got the most basic DSL connection, 1.0 Mbps, good enough for remote access to the thermostat and the webcams. That was long before streaming movies and working from home, so [...]
Wrightwood Cabin OTA TV Reception – Part 2 (VHF)
In my last installment, I talked about how I set up a UHF antenna at my cabin to pick up the Los Angeles area TV stations rebroadcast from the Victor Valley Translator in the high desert. My cabin is only about 25 miles (as the crow flies) from the Los Angeles area broadcast antennas on the [...]
Wrightwood Cabin OTA TV Reception – Part 1 (UHF)
When we first got our cabin in Wrightwood almost ten years ago, I briefly looked at the possibility of putting an antenna on the roof and getting free TV. The consensus was that reception was limited to a few homes on the east side of town with a clear view of the high desert, where the [...]
Wireless Router Speed and Range Improvements
I was only getting 130 Mbps on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G300 router which is supposed to be good for 300 Mbps. The router defaulted to a channel width of 20 MHz. I changed it to 40 MHz, and voila, I connected at 300 Mbps. Though that only worked because my router was able to find some uncrowded [...]
New Stop Sign For Revenue Generation?
My mountain cabin is located in a small town which has a two lane state highway running through it, with no stop signs or traffic lights. Normally it’s a pretty quiet road, but on winter weekends it is very busy with motorists passing through on their way to the winter resorts. The winter traffic is often [...]
Helping a Fellow Bicycle Tourist in Need
Each springtime, many hikers make the trek on the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada. The small town of Wrightwood in the mountains north of Los Angeles is known as one of the hiker friendly stops on the way. Locals often meet hikers where the PCT crosses the highway and give [...]