Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)

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feel the pain

I can relate to your struggles in two ways. I had a similar bureaucratic nightmare trying to get my local telecom to come out and fix a faulty phone line, which had the disturbing effect of disconnecting the internet once every 2 minutes for about 1 second. While it sounds like a minor inconvenience, I was unable to download virtually anything for over 2 months while the behemoth of a company I was dealing with tried to get both its incompetent feet moving in the right direction. As for your dial-up experience, I was sent off to school with my families old computer, a speedy 200Mhz Pentium MMX box, which refused to use the provided broadband at the institution. Its amazing that being on dial-up changed my internet habits, in that I unconsciously avoided sites with gratuitous flash content simply because I could go out for tea while the pages loaded. Youtube was the site that would cripple my box.

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