People who follow me on twitter will have got used to my ranting about my internet connection woes up until a few weeks ago. Basically I was getting random disconnects, and sometimes failure to re-synch the ADSL for several hours at a time. For an internet business, this is far from ideal.<\/p>\n
Eventually, after not one but two BT engineer visits, the problem was resolved. To this day, nobody really knows what it was, but I strongly suspect there was some corroded, crappy wiring at the point where the wire from the telephone pole connects to the house. As this is outside the master socket, it’s BT’s problem, so they replaced something up there, and my connection has been perfect ever since.<\/p>\n
Not only that, it’s been faster. And not a bit faster, almost twice as fast<\/strong>, from an average of 3MB to an average of 7MB. Wahey.<\/p>\n I have to say though, that it doesn’t really matter. I don’t buy and download many big games, I don’t download any movies, and cool though the iplayer is, TV has been crap lately, and watching it on a laptop sucks anyway. So for me, I conclude that any internet speed above 2MB is probably just academic.<\/p>\n In other news, I added a new interview to my little side-site showmethegames here:<\/p>\n