The cable guy came, all wet and hot in a Virgin sweatshirt, drilled a hole through the wall, stuck a wire through it and connected it outside, terminated it with a neat white box on the wall, cabled from there to my computer, faffed about a bit with a new ‘modem’ and an even newer ‘router’ and there I was, surfing along the superhighway at just a tad under 50bps, smooth as smooth.
It’s all rather an anticlimax, really.
Pending a sufficiently long ethernet cable, Graham is tuned in on the wireless side of the box, and getting a perfectly acceptable 16bps.
I know that in some places 50bps is nothing so very special but here in our little valley it’s a great leap into the 21st century. We have lift-off. 50bps is more than fast enough to handle anything we might want to do together, at the same time, including the luxury of internet radio while I work. Factor in unlimited bandwidth and web storage space and we’re home and dry.
So all I have to do now is get keyed into Virgin, and keyed out of BT. The bottom line price is almost exactly the same so I’m well content.
A dangerous situation, in truth. I’m sure there’s an adage somewhere in the gobbets of information that clutter my brain, warning of the dangers of contented poets.
Welcome to the fast lane! I’m sure you will be happy being able to download videos and listen to music without waiting for a buffer. I love broadband – we made the switch several years (dragging my husband kicking and screaming) and never looked back.
Glad to hear that this installation was anticlimactic. These things rarely go as smoothly as you’ve described yours did so I’m glad it was your turn.
Good Luck with the new connection.
I don’t know what a bps is, but it sounds like you can now listen to all the music videos you like
Here G wishes to know if that is Kilobytes per second or just Bytes?
Ok, we say laughing. Thank you.
John, we’re talking Mbps I surmise. I got 2.0 till I lashed out an extra fiver a month to Orange and it jumped to (a reported) 7.4, showing that the limits that drive us mad are usually server based, to preserve their bandwidth etc. So all that “up to…(speed)” hype is really just that. Anyway, it’s great to enjoy all the channels that archive and stream online, isn’t it? Frankly, I hardly ever watch TV now, as my PC monitor is better and brings me all the channels.