As stated in several previous threads, my wife and I are moving every 8 weeks while she finishes her externships for her last year of graduate school. Her sixth and final rotation brings us to Ada, Oklahoma, a town of approximately 16,000 people with limited options for broadband Internet access.
The apartment we'll be living in for the 8 weeks of the rotation only offers one option: wireless Internet that operates only 4-7 times faster than dial-up. The connection costs $40-$50 a month, requires a 1-year contract, and carries a $200 fee if canceled before the first year of service ends.
I have called the local cable and DSL companies and confirmed they do not offer service where we'll be living.
The Ada public library offers free wi-fi, but the connection would not be secured and thus not usable for e-mail, checking forums, playing games on Steam, or anything but browsing web sites.
In short, I have no viable options for secure broadband Internet access for 8 weeks starting March 1. This means I may be offline during the weekdays starting March 3 and ending May 2.
My wife and I do plan on visiting Tulsa on the weekends during the Ada rotation as often as possible. While there, we plan to stay with my parents, who have a secure broadband connection and wireless router which I set up several months ago.
I am staying with my wife at her parents' house until the morning of March 1, so I will be able to check and reply to e-mails, PMs, and forum posts for the next three days.
If you are interested in volunteering for any Christian Gamers Alliance or Tribe of Judah staff position, please do so as soon as possible and I will make every effort to equip you with the access you need before the morning of March 1.
After my wife's rotation ends on May 2, we will be traveling to St. Louis for her graduation. We currently do not know where we will be living starting May 11.
I had hoped to have both the Alliance and Tribe of Judah at full staff before the Ada rotation, but responses to "Help Wanted" threads have been few and far between. I will do what I can to manage these groups with limited or no Internet access during the months of March and April, but want the community to know in advance that my time online will be severely limited for this period.
On a related note, I've read articles on using a remote server to encrypt traffic even while browsing on public wi-fi. Could one of our more technically inclined forum members provide further detail on what I will need and how to set up such a server?
The apartment we'll be living in for the 8 weeks of the rotation only offers one option: wireless Internet that operates only 4-7 times faster than dial-up. The connection costs $40-$50 a month, requires a 1-year contract, and carries a $200 fee if canceled before the first year of service ends.
I have called the local cable and DSL companies and confirmed they do not offer service where we'll be living.
The Ada public library offers free wi-fi, but the connection would not be secured and thus not usable for e-mail, checking forums, playing games on Steam, or anything but browsing web sites.
In short, I have no viable options for secure broadband Internet access for 8 weeks starting March 1. This means I may be offline during the weekdays starting March 3 and ending May 2.
My wife and I do plan on visiting Tulsa on the weekends during the Ada rotation as often as possible. While there, we plan to stay with my parents, who have a secure broadband connection and wireless router which I set up several months ago.
I am staying with my wife at her parents' house until the morning of March 1, so I will be able to check and reply to e-mails, PMs, and forum posts for the next three days.
If you are interested in volunteering for any Christian Gamers Alliance or Tribe of Judah staff position, please do so as soon as possible and I will make every effort to equip you with the access you need before the morning of March 1.
After my wife's rotation ends on May 2, we will be traveling to St. Louis for her graduation. We currently do not know where we will be living starting May 11.
I had hoped to have both the Alliance and Tribe of Judah at full staff before the Ada rotation, but responses to "Help Wanted" threads have been few and far between. I will do what I can to manage these groups with limited or no Internet access during the months of March and April, but want the community to know in advance that my time online will be severely limited for this period.
On a related note, I've read articles on using a remote server to encrypt traffic even while browsing on public wi-fi. Could one of our more technically inclined forum members provide further detail on what I will need and how to set up such a server?
