BSF*!!!!

Aaaargh! For a first world country, our bandwidth currently sucks!!

When the RO and I finally took possession of this house, the very first thing that we arranged was for broadband to be installed. Why?? Well because we're nerds and we both suffer from serious withdrawals if we don't have a serious dose of t'internet every night. Work surfing doesn't count, it has to be access from home.

We were really chuffed when they finally activated our line and we set out, in our usual geeky fashion, to get the modem connected and the wireless network up and running. No problem eh?

Except, except!! the bloody line keeps dropping! Every night for the past 5 weeks we have watched in horror as our posts get lost in the ether. Sometime between 6pm and 8pm every evening, the connection gets all dodgy. So why, I hear you ask, don't we just wait until after 8pm? Well, it's about choice you see, I choose to blog before 8pm and by god I expect to be able to!

So after suffering in relative silence (NOT) I decided to bite the bullet and call BT. The only reason I hadn't done it before was because we currently have a 2mb line (a carry over from the old house) and we've been wary of making them aware of our fortune given that we're now further out in a more rural setting.

For once the person on the other end seemed to know what he was doing but after testing the line he admitted that he couldn't find anything obviously wrong with it. Instead he would have to log the problem with their engineer type people so that they can check what the load is like in the area. This can only be bad news for our poor 2mb, we are definitely going to have to downgrade, and we'll probably find that the area is seriously short of bandwidth.

In an ideal world it would mean that they would have to upgrade the line into our little Village, but in the real world, it probably just means that those of us with more than our fair share will have to become one of the many rather than 'of the select few'.

Very selfish of me, but damn I like my bandwidth as it is!!

VP

p.s. VERY sorry about the use of caps and exclamation, it's been one of those days...

*Bloody Shit Fuck - as in, I am very annoyed *grin*