About to run off to the new ART Clinic building to do an assessment of their electrical and network systems for a future solar backup installation.  But for those wondering about our setup to work remotely, here is a brief rundown of what we carried halfway around the world:

Equipment of Note

• 1 Sony Vaio Laptop
• 1 Sony Vaio Laptop (old one, as a backup)
• Multiple power adapters (Europe, UK/Africa), though converters not necessary since power supplies are multi-voltage
• 2 Wireless USB adapters (in case our internal notebook wireless adapters weren't up to the task)
• 2 Wireless routers (MSI and Rosewill), each with 4-port hub built in to ease networking the two laptops
  
• Various network cables
• Trusty wireless mouse
  

Software of Note

• Standard development suite installed/configured on both machines
• RingCentral Voice-over-IP (VOIP) call controller
• Skype
• Subversion version control / file sharing client (to connect to svn repositories in our data center at home)
• Outlook (to connect/sync with Exchange server, and thus Blackberry, hosted by Rackspace)
• Variety of web browsers
• Cisco VPN client, which has held up well even on lossy connections

Things have been working reasonably well as far as connectivity and electricity.  The village has made a lot of progress in wireless coverage in the past two years when they first started to have internet connectivity via a microwave line-of-sight link.  And they have reliable GSM network coverage via the Zain network. Not bad!


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