Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Here we go again


I got to stop buying equipment and not using it.  

Okay, trying to get away from cable so I am using a OTA tuner with a cheap window antenna.  I was getting 7 channels with half of them poor signal.  I have had a rabbit ear antenna in my closet for ever and thought I would never have any use for it until watching an episode of "Antenna Man" on Youtube who said it was feasible to use two antennas at the same time so I thought to myself, I have an adapter and cables to make that work so let me see what difference it makes on my signal.  Well as you may have guess it increased my signal strength and number of channels 50%.  Why didn't I try this a couple of years ago, why?

Oh well, all is good now.  I will go with this for a while and see how it goes.

Live and learn!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

2020 What's new!

It has been a couple of years since my last post but here goes it.

I have been trying to get up to date with new tech..I had bought a powerline adapter kit for my network connection for my bedroom.   I have had these for the last 3 years but never broke them out of the box until a couple of days ago.  Wow, I am kicking my self in the butt for not setting these up sooner.  It was plug and play (no clicking of the pairing button or anything).  This thing is amazing!  I have my android box plugged into it(not happy with the android box, it is a vulnerability vector waiting to bit me in the butt) and it work okay with Youtube and PlutoTV.  I need to by one more pair of them to get the livingroom and kitchen setup but not sure about the throughput since the more you have plugged in the less throughput for them overall.

More to come!