This past week has been huge for the farm and the result of a 9 year combined effort of many people in New Ross to get fiber op in the community. After watching the lines get cleared and new wire strung up all summer, we finally got fiber op to the farm which is a game changer. Before the change we were getting the speeds listed below:
After getting the highest speed package available, we now getting:
As you can imagine by seeing this difference, it's a huge change and means so much to how we work around here. Both of us work office jobs online and have been remote for most of the year. For anyone who is remote working an office job, you know how much time is spent online (all of the time) and bandwidth needed for virtual meetings. In our old speed, we had to hand off on who used the internet and save downloads until the evening. With this change we can now both work without any issue.
For the farm business, it's huge. We use the internet for tons of things like updating the website, doing online financial work, researching and learning new skills, communicating with other farmers/forestry people, and so much more. Being able to now have this kind of internet speed means we can really work on expanding so much more to an online space. If we want to do more things like virtual training or online sales, this is so important.
There are few times in the work around here where we have had game changing and this is definitely one of those times.
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