Tuesday, 1 April 2025

Technology and the road trip

 As I've written elsewhere, we're just back from a road trip to Port Lincoln in South Australia.

Technologywise, we took more or less the same as we took to Tasmania  last year - I took the HP ProBook which continues to function well as a travel computer, supplemented by the little Lenovo M8 tablet to read the news in the morning, and my second hand Canon Powershot.

I did take a film camera with me as well but it ended up staying in the bag for the whole trip.

Everywhere we stayed provided internet, but of variable quality - for example in Glenelg the internet in the short stay apartment was quite slow, and we ended up using my 4G travel modem, especially as J had to make a zoom call one morning.

In other places, for example in our rental cottage in Goolwa it was blisteringly fast.

In a couple of places, motels used these damn captive portal solutions where you have to jump through hoops to log on, and we simply used the 4G modem in preference as it provided reasonable speed for minimal hassle ...