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When we were cut off our broadband and telephone line by a damaged sub sea cable last week, I thought I would do a bit more reading, even finish a book that I have been dipping into for some time, and get to the end another book that was given me to read. I intended to browse newspapers for a change and watch various news channels on the TV. Thank goodness our media was not part of the internet package. We did at least we did have that and the radio.
The broadband service and telephone were restored in the late/early hours of Saturday/Sunday morning. All digits crossed it stays connected. Just in case it does not, I am busy catching up with correspondence and other communications.
I don't think 3G has arrived here yet, let alone 4G, which, is being touted as the latest and best communication link to buy into. My smart phone was severely limited with what I could do with it for back up -I couldn't access the internet at all unless I went into a shop or a café that had wifi on offer to customers. Where I live, there are only two businesses like that. So, I made time to go to one or other of those places. It was the time that I could have curled up with a book or browsed a newspaper.
I did though, watch a variety of news channels on T.V. I glanced at one newspaper, the local bi-weekly rag. Apart from a great picture of a relative in it, there was not much to read. I often wonder why I buy it...the answer is the one that everyone gives; you buy it in case you miss something. I did get to the end of a chapter and the start of the next, in one of the books.
We had a letter this week giving us, we were told 'good news'. After some fiddling around with cables, connections and switches, from the 27th of January 2013, our internet service provider advises that we would have greatly improved broadband speeds. 'People have given feed back of their experiences, and they have been seeing 50% improvement in the service'. Oh goody, goody - but wait a minute... they don't say 50% of what, neither do they say whether the level of improvement will be a standard uniform level for all their customers.
We were regularly measuring a download speed of .3 Mg not so long ago, which, we reckoned was equal to dial-up levels of yesteryear. We did complain to our internet service provider, did the tests that were requested, following which, there was an improvement to about 2-4Mg dependent on the time of day and the day of the week. I wonder therefore, what glorious 50% increase we will have. Might it be an increase on .3Mg or, the 2-4 Mg?
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