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I have broadband

Joy of joys! I now have broadband, and can waste time at a much faster speed than before.

For the last six or seven months I’ve been making do with different wireless internet connections - all of which have been pretty flaky. With slow download speeds and dropped connections, its kind-of criminal that they sell these wireless services as ‘broadband’. They’re maybe okay for the very occasional web user - someone who checks their email a couple of times a week - but not for me.

Back in Edinburgh I used to have broadband internet over cable (Telewest), and had very few problems with them. In fact, over the 5 years I was a subscriber, I think I only ever had to call the tech support line about three times. And so I decided to go for the same thing here - or more specifically, I am now connected up to UPC Ireland - Broadband Express, giving me a 3 megabit connection.

December 14, 2007     0 comments     Computers, Internet, UPC