I’m sure you’ll remember, but if not, a month ago, we shared a fail that we had when purchasing our home in Pembroke – we didn’t look into internet before putting in our offer and having it accepted. To read more about it, click the image below.
With both of us working in IT and remotely, this was obviously a pretty big oversight on our part. We’ve been anxiously waiting for Starlink updates because I’ll be honest, working remotely on a shared LTE signal has been a challenge. So much so, that our morning routine had been very much like this:
Sylas: What is on your calendar today?
Me: Meeting @ 1PM, working on the business, call @4PM
Sylas: Oh, I have a 1PM too. Let me reschedule that for 2PM.
We were literally to the point where we couldn’t be on a live call together. When we both have multiple personal meetings a week and work on top of that, it was actually causing me a lot of stress and anxiety. I didn’t realize it, but it was to the point where at night before bed I was thinking of ways that I could optimize while we waited.
The Update
Remember in our country living post where I compared city life to living in the country? I mentioned that the PEOPLE are so much different here. I meant it! We have a neighbour, let’s call him E, that we’re discussing purchasing land from. He popped over to meet us and to hear more about Rainbow River Alpacas and our plans. We had a really nice chat and it came up that we’re from the city so living here without internet has been quite the challenge.
Now, we’ve been looking for high-speed internet in our area since we put in our offer in August 2021. There was nothing at all available. We made hundreds of calls, we petitioned ISPs and offered to pay for cable installation… We really exhausted every option. Every option we possibly could, based on what we knew anyway.
Here’s the thing about living in the country that you don’t realize until you experience it. Word of mouth is HUGE. E was like “Oh, you can’t get internet here? I thought Vianet just installed that dish to bring highspeed internet to people on your block” and he pointed across the street to my neighbour’s silo where lo and behold there is a highspeed wireless dish.
Imagine how stunned I was. I had called Vianet 3 times and inquired about DSL, Highspeed and wireless. I gave up in October or so. They installed this and it wasn’t even listed on their website. That day I gave them a call and within 5 days they came out and installed a Ubiquiti dish on my house and we’re rocking low-latency unlimited internet with one hop to the fibre node! For the non-techy people this roughly translates to HURRAY!
Why am I telling you this? Because life sometimes has a funny way of working out just as you hope.
Rainbow River Alpacas 