Tony is a Geek

As the weather is deciding to turn a little bit cooler / cloudier and not represent standing in the kitchen in-front of a fan-assisted oven with the door open, I decided that I would like to spend 1/2 a week (3-nights) working away from home, somewhere nice, somewhere near some water, like a lake, just somewhere pleasant that doesn't involve me driving the motorhome for 6hours.  As I've become a bit of a GIS mapping geek the past few months I thought I'd take a look at someplace local, not too far away that had an Adult camp site ( get your mind out of the gutter - I just don't like kids, just like I don't like Gen Z's , same thing, if I can avoid any contact or not be in their vicinity, I will take every measure - they annoy me - I am sure the feeling is mutual ).   With that in mind, I stumbled over this lovely place, right next to Chew Valley lake .  Okay, so why don't I just book in for a few nights and just bugger off there and keep myself to myself.  ...

So, I've noticed that there is a fair bit of noise about 5G and the car industry.  When I was involved with this a few years back, I was hearing on the grapevine that we all have to wait for 2020 and 5G will be the saviour and that will make all cars interconnected, they'll have their own network and it'll handle the load etc... Time has gone by. I then just recently saw a couple of articles that were mentioning some ideas that raised my eyebrows.  This one is proposing to use the same sort of techniques that we used to use in the good old mobile development days when we would detect if the device was connected to a network, determine what network, then determine what it is that the user is wanting to do and then switch accordingly.  Wow, that just took me back to 1999-2003!   The theory was good, so not surprised it's being suggested here....but really.... satellites! Satellite internet technology is a more stable solution than 5G or LTE for connected ...