RV Travel Logistics, NSA Woods, Connectivity Issues
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the show from separate locations, with Curry reporting from a mobile RV setup in the woods near NSA headquarters in Virginia. They describe the logistical challenges of their recent travel from a Jersey City meetup and the severe bandwidth limitations of their current 3G connection. The hosts warn listeners of a significant audio lag and potential synchronization issues throughout the episode.
jersey city· virginia· nsa headquarters· rv park· bandwidth· at&t· skype
00:00 Adam Curry, John C. DeVorah It's Sunday August 21st 2011 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 332 This is no agenda Reporting from the front lines of Gitmo Nation from the Four Winds 5000 Crackpot Command Center in the woods behind the NSA headquarters just outside our nations capital In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry Hello? And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm sure this is going to be a mediocre... Oh, great. Perfect! We've never been so tight. It's great. Jeez. It was like a long lag. I should have jumped on you when you first said Adam Yeah, y'know, you should have started like in the morning is when you should have jumped on me
00:56 So there's a lag that we should tell people about. Why don't you explain your situation so everyone has a clue why this show is going to be a little mistimed? Yes, the problem is we arrived...so we decided yesterday after our New York-New Jersey meetup which of course I'll be talking about later that the Marina and RV park conveniently located in Jersey City, New Jersey was not the nicest places to be And you just imagine a parking lot with lines and like some electrical wires thrown around. That was where we were, we did not have the expected view of the city and the Statue Of Liberty We basically had a view of other RVs... ...and now we decided to leave so we actually decided to come all the way back down to Virginia about what traffic and everything
01:51 About seven and a half hours drive pulled into a fantastic, beautiful RV camp which literally is not far from NSA headquarters. It's in the same woods essentially Really nice exactly what we wanted the Wi-Fi was great so I'm like totally happy Then I find out that they limit your bandwidth down to dial-up speeds if you exceed 60 megabytes per hour of bandwidth usage. So, uh... We tried that this morning hooking up and I know—I can even see right now that John can probably barely hear me We are currently on the 3G connection which gives us about oh, I don't know a five hour lag time and John in the morning to you over
02:42 Oh, God. Yeah over I'm sorry. I'm picking it up yeah we have a long lag and i want to say hi to everybody including yourself and the ships at sea yes in the morning to all the human resources in the chat room hey I didn't say over yet oh sorry Over in the morning to all the human resources in the chat room at no agenda chat net no agenda stream calm All charged up and ready to go exactly the way your government loves you so sorry about this. It's always very difficult it's probably a little harder for John who who can then of course barely hear any clips, anything else that's coming down the line. It may stabilize a little bit John within an hour or so it kind of depends on how many people are using the AT&T cell connection that is around here so we'll just go with the flow over
