Last night I went to bed at 10pm but got up once to put medicine on my itchy lesions. I got up at 6am to use the bathroom, finally waking/getting up at 7am.
I left the apt just before 8am, walked down the hill to Mercado
Madrid where I bought an 18-pack carton of eggs for 21,980 pesos ($5).
Teresa made me scrambled eggs with an English muffin now I
just have to wait an hour for my food to settle before I head to the gym.
I left the apt just after 9am (yeah, earlier than planned)
and while Smartfit wasn’t very busy, I had to wait several times to use
machines and I had to reverse the order of my last four due to unavailability.
I had a latte in Ganso y Castor where I met a couple
and their son from Seattle and Boston, respectively. I left at 11am and
returned to the apt.
Teresa pointed out this pretty little bird on our balcony
wall that we haven’t seen before.
I see I haven’t done a Rosetta Stone Spanish lesson in 3
years so I completed 4 lessons; speaking seems to be most difficult for me mostly
because I can’t remember the sentence I’m supposed to repeat in Spanish.
Teresa talked to Esmeralda who recommended we keep DirecTV
and only switch our internet.
Pre Movistar, I did a Speedtest.net and got 190.40 Mbps
download and 31.21 Mbps upload.
We finished lunch and now we’re waiting for Movistar to
arrive.
At 1:45 Teresa sent me next door to Ara to buy snacks
for the muchachos de Movistar. I bought a large bottle of Coke and packages of
Doritos and some type of mayonnaise potato chips for 19,000 pesos.
At 2:30 a thunder storm came through with a little rain.
At 3:15, two Movistar guys showed up and started the installation. We told them we only wanted the fiber optic internet without television but they had me download their Movistar TV app to my cellphone anyway. They did all the rewiring from the same hole/outlet where we have Tigo/Une Wi-Fi and DirecTV cabling. (They also did some rewiring in the 3rd bedroom.) Fiber optic cable is noticeably thinner and they installed it without bothering our other wiring so now I have fiber optic and Tigo Wi-Fi internet networks. They gave me two Movistar networks with this explanation:
Post Movistar, I did a Speedtest.net and got 252.37 Mbps
download and 374.76 Mbps upload.
The muchacho said I’ll get closer to 700Meg when I have a
newer computer.
I connected both our cellphones to the network but I still
have to connect my Amazon Fire Stick and see how much better Medellin TV works.
They left at 5:15 so the install took 2 hours.
The real test will be if I can watch Medellin TV without any
buffering.
At 6pm I connected to DAZN to continue watching the NFL
Draft.
FUNNY
Presumably Medellin TV is illegal - the only references to it online are Facebook postings to contact the owner about services. Colombia is finally taking action against illegal streaming services - look up the authorities recent actions against Magis TV. Remember as well that illegal streaming services often download viruses and spyware.
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