Holy Jesus, My ISP sucks. They were recently bought out by the dreaded Tiscali, and it's all gone down hill since then. I'm currently throttled down to ~70kB/s, which is a tenth of what I was getting before. That's when I'm connected at all, of course. The last two Sundays the router couldn't authenticate, so no Internub for me.
It's not all bad news, though. No Sir.
Turns out the exchange my phone line hangs off is available to Be, so I can get some obscenely fast ADSL on the go. According to my calculations, I should get around 14Mb/s downstream, with a following wind. That's about twice what I was getting before Pipex fell on its arse, and about twenty times what I'm getting right now.
In short, Pipex/Tiscali can bite the big one. I'm grabbing my MAC and putting my Nike Airs on.
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