I received an email from a gentleman saying that someone mentioned that I could help him with a computer issue he was having. Thing is, he was not in my geographic service area of Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina. He was not even in our state. He was from Arizona. Now it is not uncommon for someone to …
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
There, I said it! “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”…. It has been a long week here at Homeland Secure IT, with everyone tied up on a job almost constantly! Server deployment started today. Four computers sold and to be installed for one client, and another computer sold and going in on Monday… Not to mention a 1 TB RAID array installed in an existing …
Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville
If you are from the Greenville / Upstate area you would have to be living as a Quaker to not know about all that is going on with the effort to bring Google Fiber here. Heck, even Quakers probably are aware of the community effort to catch the eye of Google. It is not just localized either. Greenville is showing …
Why was the Google On Main / #GoogleOnMain event important to Greenville & the Upstate?
Amy Wood of WSPA TV was asking what the Google On Main event meant to us… In thinking about what Google On Main meant to me, it meant a chance to join with friends and strangers alike in a *community* effort to catch the eye of Google… And I believe we did just that! Seriously though… To see thousands of …
Google On Main Was A Total Success!
Last night my wife Pamela, daughter Megan and her friend Christina attended Google On Main along with hundreds of others and formed the letters that spelled out “Google” while swinging LED glow sticks over our heads and posing for photos and videos as a helicopter and plane flew over. What a blast! What does it all mean? It means that …
Google High Speed Fiber Coming To Greenville SC
Okay, the title is deceiving, as Google has not picked where they are going yet… However, we here in the Upstate are hoping that Google will select Greenville, SC as their test bed for 1 Gig of fiber awesomeness! This Saturday, many people are planning on meeting downtown in Greenville in an effort to make everyone in the world aware …
Try out broadband.gov to test your internet speed
Found out about www.Broadband.gov and tested our speed. Only 21MB down and 1.5MB up. Feeling a little slooooooooooow =)