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Working from Home

Hybernating our Hybrid

We know from seeing all the tow trucks running through our neighborhood since Coronavirus quarantine that old-fashioned combustion cars won’t start after a couple of weeks, but it’s kind of ironic that an electric car won’t start either. Yep, electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars have two batteries: a “drive” battery that moves the car, […]

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Infrastructure Working from Home

Three ways to the Internet – Cable + DSL + LTE

For us, the most critical part of working from home during the Coronavirus era is having a rock-solid continuous Internet connection. In another post we talked about our LTE cellular hotspot failover setup, but our LTE was having trouble handling our load during long outages. We decided to get DSL as well. The problem was […]

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Infrastructure Working from Home

Reliable Internet with Automatic Cellular LTE Failover

Behold the Netgear 4G LTE Modem with Two Ethernet Ports. You plug this little fella between your existing Internet connection and your router, and if your DSL or Cable Modem goes out, this takes care of automatic failover to Cellular LTE.