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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by aab0 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @01:02PM (#11749317)
Kids would go berserk in a setting like that, can you imagine? No Instagram, Snapchat, games, and on and on. Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket? They only have USB ports AFAIK.

Any parent with kids >10yo who moves there with them will soon wish they had torn down the house and built a Faraday cage they can put Wifi into instead...

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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by cfallin on Sunday May 22, 2016 @02:09PM (#11749586)
> Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket?

Yup. I've done this with my Nexus 5. You need a USB OTG cable and a USB Ethernet adapter. Dorkiest thing ever, walking around the apartment trailing an Ethernet cable, but page-loads were pretty snappy, all right...

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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by aab0 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @04:49PM (#11750227)
Neat. I should've guessed that there would be a USB adapter. Is it plug-and-play or does it require additional drivers?
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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by cfallin on Sunday May 22, 2016 @05:19PM (#11750329)
I'm pretty sure it was plug-and-play. It's actually kind of cool how many USB peripherals Android natively supports -- keyboards, mice, flash drives, etc...
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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by milkey_mouse on Sunday May 22, 2016 @06:05PM (#11750483)
Of course; under the hood it's just Linux. Though Google has replaced most of the userspace drivers and stuff are still the same good old Linux ones.
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Re:$1M will buy 122 acres in part of U.S. National Radio Qui... by yompers888 on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:54PM (#11755551)
I lived in the NRQZ and had no knowledge of the fact until maybe a year ago, long after I left. Some of the commenters here are ridiculous; we had cell phones, wifi, microwaves, radios, and probably anything else people here have come up with. I'll grant that the cell service was never great, but I always figured that was more a function of living in a pretty rural place (town of 20k).
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