Archive for May 31st, 2007

31
May '07

Online

   Posted by: lyle    in Domestic, Geeky

Yay, I’m back in the land of the living – well, broadband-wise, anyway.

Yes, it’s been connected – and I didn’t even notice, has just assumed it wasn’t going to be ready yet. Herself said about it, that the ADSL modem had been flashing away today, so I had a look and yay, it’s back.

And OK, I can’t deny, I’m just a little bit impressed, although it’s more about getting my expectations managed expect it to take a week, and it actually takes four or five days. But all the same, well, I’m back online. So I don’t care. :¬)

My name’s Lyle, I’m a techie, and I’m used to broadband.
I have no pride…

31
May '07

56k (Again)

   Posted by: lyle    in Geeky, Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related

In some ways it’s actually kind of interesting to be back on 56k dial-up for a few days.

I’d forgotten just how slow it really is, and how much I take for granted that I can access pretty much anything I want without having to wait for it. (As Lionel said) YouTube is an absolute no-no – not that I use it all that much anyway, but still.

And it’s surprising just how many sites fall into the trap of taking broadband for granted. Some of the sites I’ve done certainly do – although, thankfully, not the photography portfolio site, which still loads pretty quickly. (well, in comparison to other photo sites, although it’s still painfully slow on the available bandwidth)

Taking a positive from this enforced period of online-dragging is that I’ve now checked all the sites I’ve done of late, and there’s at least one that may get a rewrite at some point because of those tests. But for the most part, I’m actually feeling quite chuffed that none of them are too painful to load up on this slow-ass piece of crap non-broadband connection.