Connectivity. We've a houseful of streaming devices; phones, tablets, and laptops. The world is at our fingertips. The devices are there. The content is there. But there is a weak link. Connectivity. It seems everything that has a picture or sound requires bandwidth. And what we don't have while we're traveling is unlimited data. At home, we've got a specific service for internet and it provides unlimited data. But when we're traveling, our internet is tethered to our phone plan and a jetpack. This setup works great; we get coverage practically everywhere in the country, but there is a limit to how much data we can use each month. After that limit we pay dearly. The carrier offers an unlimited data plan, and we got sucked in to that briefly, but under that plan you can use all the data you want until you reach a certain threshold, and above that amount they throttle the speed to make it essentially unusable. The unlimited plan is not really so unlimited. So while the market drives ever more data usage, we'll suffer the weak link of supply, until internet is determined to be critical for life as we know it and becomes universal.
Meanwhile, An Egyptian goose family.
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