T Hunte

Hey Anne,

I wasn't saying bug issues. I was just wondering if perspectives change, or of cohabitation is more the norm in those circumstances.

Hey there,

Much like so many of us, I'm a big fan of alternative house building. I do wonder, though, about insects. I'm not personally one of those people who hate everything with 6+ legs. In fact, I quite love almost all the invertebrates I see.

Having said that, I assume there must be more insects in the home when building with more natural materials. How do you deal with them? Do you have a different gauge for judging if it's just a co-occupant or infestation?

Please note for transparency: I did not count Douglas' review in the tally. I was also contacted in my DMs by the pwner of the property I am buying, and did not use her response either, as it seemed to me a private message seemed biased somehow.

If had counted these, Bell would be at 0, and Xplornet would be at 2.

There was also 1 response of using Xplornet where no mention of positive or negative experience was gleaned. They were awarded no points for that submission.

So to mention how my tally worked

There ended up being 3 services people used in my neck of the woods. Bell, Xplornet, and Starlink.

I tallied these based on the comments like so:
Positive review of current service = 1 point
Negative review of current service = -1 point
If in a comment it was expressed that a previous service was so bad they needed to switch away, that service would receive -2 points.

Bell received a total of -2 points
Xplornet received a total of 1 points
Starlink received a total of 4 points

Bell had the most current and previous users, followed closely by Xplornet. Starlink had the fewest but, however all reviews of Starlink were positive.

Very helpful, Douglas!

I also asked a local community group on Facebook about this (in more vague terms to try to get a wider range of answers) and received over 27 responses from different individuals. Later, I'll tally the responses up and post them.

It may not be beneficial to anyone else but me, but you never know. Hopefully it helps someone else too.

As background, during the winter I will likely need to work from home as the roads will be pretty dangerous (but still maintained). This is in rural New Brunswick (Canada).

The place where I bought property, only has Bell as a cable internet provider.

Their pricing is $150/month for "50 MbpsMega bits per second Maximum download speed", "10 MbpsMega bits per second Max upload speed", and  Unlimited usage. I've lived in a rural area before and their "Maximum" speed is never what you get. It's too bad I can't test it out to see what I would actually get, before signing a contract, eh?

Starlink is the other option I'm looking at. $800 initial cost, and then $150/month. There are no tiers or packages that Starlink sells, but this article shows speeds in Canada, generally speaking: https://www.ookla.com/articles/starlink-hughesnet-viasat-performance-q1-2022#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%2C%20Starlink%20median,during%20the%20same%20time%20period.

Any thoughts or suggestions welcome. Let me know what you do/did, etc.

Funny. Was about to see if I could find a thread talking about red wrigglers in humanure bucket toilets. This is not that.

And now I wonder if red wrigglers would solve your problem

That sounds really stressful, frustrating, and exhausting. It sounds like you've tried everything you can currently think of, and it's still a very rough situation.

That sucks. You have my sympathy that such a pest has visited your garden.

I see, Jay, that you were posting as recently as 2 years ago. How's the plan a' percolating?

Well hello there,

I'm a humie living in New Brunswick, Canada. That's the other side of Maine, for those in the US.

I love living close to the ocean (close being a 30+ minute drive away), and hope to one day be considered a local Maritimer. I moved here from Ontario...I don't think it would have been possible to own property in my lifetime if I had chosen to stay in Ontario, plus that would be pretty boring to never leave what I consider a very mediocre province.

I am closing on a house with 5 acres on July 25th *knock on wood*. This is a huge step that I planned for the last 2 years so that I could live more surrounded by what I love: nature. I know, it's cliche, but it is what it is.

My hobbies includes mushroom & plant identification, hiking, cooking really yummy food, listening to audiobooks, jigsaw puzzles, board games. I'm sure I could go on, but we don't have all day.

My vision for the property I'm about to buy is....likely a bit naive. My priority is to do things slowly (as permaculture teaches us) and learn what nature is doing on the site. I'd like to catalog the current species, and start the process of removing any foreigners, especially invasive plants. Biological conservation is something I'm passionate about, and I quite like Tallamy's book on Home Grown National Park. Once I get the foreign plants out (or composting), I'll start planting my food forest. I suppose I'm lucky in that I have a nice field to start with.

And I'll take it from there! I hope to learn from everyone who is here/was here, and hopefully I can get closer and closer to my vision of making a home.