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Making medical decisions based on cost
Throughout my career I have been fortunate enough to have good, company-sponsored health insurance and have been in relatively good health. I only thought a little about healthcare costs when I was self-employed and we were on a continuation plan (sort of like COBRA). While the costs were not cheap, if I recall correctly around $1100 a month about a decade ago, we had good coverage and could see whatever doctor we wanted. When I lost my job last year I kept coverage through a COBRA plan until my new employer's plan started; they had a 60 day waiting period which is kind of brutal if you're trying to maintain continuous coverage.
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6 months after fixing Internet woes
About 6 months ago, I wrote about how I replaced all of my dad's networking gear with Ubiquiti products including the USG
, Cloud Key
, and a pair of UAP-AC-LR
s. While it didn't completely cure his Internet issues, we were at least sure that the router and access points weren't the problem. His cable provider kept doing work on the connection and eventually he replaced the cable modem with an ARRIS 6183
. I don't believe that the cable modem was the problem, but I wasn't going to argue with it working (we had already swapped out the cable modem with a different SB 6141).
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Curing home Internet problems with UniFi gear
For as many years as I can remember, I've been the goto person for my family when they have tech problems. Anyone that is in this situation knows that this gets old pretty fast! At the beginning of January, my father started having problems with his Internet connection where he said it kept going out. I told him to call the cable company and get them to come out. He wasn't quite convinced that it was the cable company, so he spent about a week testing out his router/access point (Apple TimeCapsule) and my sister's router (similar device). (My dad and sister live in separate houses on the same property.)
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Review: UniFi AP AC Lite and AP AC LR
I've been using my EdgeRouter Lite for more than 6 months now and couldn't be happier with it. After posting my review, Ubiquiti contacted me and asked if I was interested in testing out some new hardware. As I love playing with new hardware, I couldn't say no. I was actually eyeing the 802.11 ac access points, but the price tag put me off as I didn't need a new wireless access point; my Time Capsule has been working fine in bridge mode providing coverage throughout my house pretty well.
, 
, and a pair of 
s. While it didn't completely cure his Internet issues, we were at least sure that the router and access points weren't the problem. His cable provider kept doing work on the connection and eventually he replaced the cable modem with an 
. I don't believe that the cable modem was the problem, but I wasn't going to argue with it working (we had already swapped out the cable modem with a different SB 6141).