Ever since I got here I have been having some trouble with the Internet. The trouble being, for want of a better word, that it sucked.
It was cable Internet or a reasonably good speed (maybe 5mb) but it seemed to block everything. And by everything I mean Steam, Torrents and Skype. Then when I got my PS3 and realised that the Internet was blocking that too I figured that was the last straw. I don't care how cheap the Internet is and how much fuss it is to change to adsl its just not worth it. Wondering quite what the problem was I got my wife to ask why all these Internet services didn't work with the cable. It turned out that the cable company blocks all of the ports that these services use. Well it doesn't actually block them so much as assign them next to no bandwidth. Their reason was that nobody in this town wants to use all these services and others like them.........errrmmm......... riiiiiight.
So about a month or so ago we started looking into changing providers, asking friends for advice, and calling companies to get everything set up. And after a few initial problems (crossed lines) we finally got fully functional Internet up and running a few weeks ago. Hooray! So I can now use skype and buy PS3 games. That's progress. Its not blindingly fast Internet like you can get in a city (I think adsl here caps out at 48mb and I only went for 8mb) but its better that it was and that's the main thing.
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