Yeeee Ha!!!

Now the old PC is on steroids. I've just upgraded from dial-up to a Streamyx account. One of the first things I did to try out this new broadband thingy was to visit Hazel's blog. Of all my favourite links listed on the right column there, she's got the slowest loading site due to, I think, the large graphics and the live link to her favourite music.

And hey presto! The Lake Gardens scenery appeared in a blink and the music came right on! Wow, that was really fast, huh? Usually when I was on dial-up, I would just wait for the stop button to appear to kill the intermitten streaming music so that the rest of the site could download. Otherwise I would just grow old waiting to read how the kids had been treating her.

However, despite the broadband hype on fast internet access, they did take their time (10 days!) to process my application and install the necessary hardware on my PC. Wonder if that is a glimpse of what I should be expecting of their service?