May 042007
I arrive home tonight and performed my newest ritual: checking to see if the ADSL link light on the modem had come on. After being without home Internet access since we moved house on April 23 I was overjoyed to be reconnected – and to download my 35 MB of email that was waiting in my box.
The downside? My ADSL provider, who I’ve been a fanatically loyal customer since 2001 doesn’t provide ADSL2 access to my new house, seemly for political reasons, not technical. Consequently I’ve dropped from 8 MB/sec to 512 KB/sec, and from 20 GB a month to just 6 GB. Time to hunt for a new ISP…