Mobile Internet

In anticipation of going to Gairo for the drilling and pump installations, we bought a USB modem for the computers. This connects to the phone company cell towers directly so you don’t have to go through anyone else’s ISP. We had a bit if trouble connecting it up as the phone company didn’t give instructions how to set up their network for it. But we got it going eventually after a visit to their office in Arusha again. It is advertised with a speed of 7.2 mbps which would be very fast, but we only are getting about 50 kbps from it. Slow but some connection is better than no connection we figured. The phone companies have their own power supplies so when the electricity goes off we will be able to use this modem and still connect to the internet. (But only while our laptops run on internal battery power).