Make sure you position your receiver in a location that sees less snow. I had a client outside of Flint, MI that had DirecWay.
During a moderate snow storm, the connection took a shit. We went out and broomed off the dish and we were up and running again.
Ok, it's a slow day at work... The Voyager 1 probe has traveled roughly 7.8 billion miles from Earth.
If you were commuting every work day around 25 miles each way, plus an extra 50 on the weekends(assuming current day prices and vehicles):
You would have had to work for 500,000 years before retiring to drive this far.
You would have had to have used roughly 260 million gallons of gas (around $390 million).
You would probably have to buy around 52,000 vehicles before retirement. This would run you somewhere in the range of $936 million.
You would need 2.6 million oil changes (unless you procrastinate like me and do it only every 8-10K miles, in which case, you would only need around 870,000 oil changes.) This would set you back around $52 million.
The repairs the the vehicles could run you anywhere from $100 - $156 million, (not including the towing costs... Zoikes!)
If you chose to do it as one long road trip (assuming 8 hours rest per day), it would take you around 21,370 years. To the above costs, you would have to add the $52 to $100 million in road munchies.
I can see it now:
"If you Wi-Fi in Athens to sell off your $20,000 stash of NASCAR collectables on E-bay... you might be a redneck."
"If you use the Athens Wireless Network to update your "I love Dale Earnhardt" webpage... You might be a redneck."
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Make sure you position your receiver in a location that sees less snow. I had a client outside of Flint, MI that had DirecWay. During a moderate snow storm, the connection took a shit. We went out and broomed off the dish and we were up and running again.
Ok, it's a slow day at work... The Voyager 1 probe has traveled roughly 7.8 billion miles from Earth.
If you were commuting every work day around 25 miles each way, plus an extra 50 on the weekends(assuming current day prices and vehicles):
You would have had to work for 500,000 years before retiring to drive this far.
You would have had to have used roughly 260 million gallons of gas (around $390 million).
You would probably have to buy around 52,000 vehicles before retirement. This would run you somewhere in the range of $936 million.
You would need 2.6 million oil changes (unless you procrastinate like me and do it only every 8-10K miles, in which case, you would only need around 870,000 oil changes.) This would set you back around $52 million.
The repairs the the vehicles could run you anywhere from $100 - $156 million, (not including the towing costs... Zoikes!)
If you chose to do it as one long road trip (assuming 8 hours rest per day), it would take you around 21,370 years. To the above costs, you would have to add the $52 to $100 million in road munchies.
Perhaps this one will do him in and the Oracle Big Brother he's developing for the government will never see the light of day.
I can see it now: "If you Wi-Fi in Athens to sell off your $20,000 stash of NASCAR collectables on E-bay... you might be a redneck." "If you use the Athens Wireless Network to update your "I love Dale Earnhardt" webpage... You might be a redneck."