Gumbo
FH is my second home
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- Dec 22, 2003
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I live on the edge of a remote Norfolk village, right at the end of a lane. I love it where I live. I barely ever hear a car. The air is clean and clear. I can walk my dog around fields and footpaths from my doorstep.
I knew when we moved here that the Broadband was shit. I was comforted by the fact that a firm called WiSpire, which installs WiFi internet from church towers in Norfolk, were mere months away from installing on the church which we can see across the field. This was confirmed to me in an email before we moved in.
That was four years ago...
Since then we've managed on a sub 1meg connection which drops every time the phone rings. I've barely played an online game, downloads are a nightmare. If one person watches youtube, no one else can even check their emails. My daughter loves to watch youtube.
Tomorrow we get hooked up to the Wispire, it arived a couple of weeks ago. 10meg unlimited use connection for £22 a month.
It's not much compared to you city folk I know, but it'll mean iplayer, Amazon and netflix will all become possible. I won't need to set a windows update to download overnight, or wait 4 days for a new game to download over Steam.
I can get back online gaming. Anyone play DCS btw? I'm learning it, but would love to get online with it.
I'm bursting with excitement like a kid at Christmas, I had to share.
I knew when we moved here that the Broadband was shit. I was comforted by the fact that a firm called WiSpire, which installs WiFi internet from church towers in Norfolk, were mere months away from installing on the church which we can see across the field. This was confirmed to me in an email before we moved in.
That was four years ago...
Since then we've managed on a sub 1meg connection which drops every time the phone rings. I've barely played an online game, downloads are a nightmare. If one person watches youtube, no one else can even check their emails. My daughter loves to watch youtube.
Tomorrow we get hooked up to the Wispire, it arived a couple of weeks ago. 10meg unlimited use connection for £22 a month.
It's not much compared to you city folk I know, but it'll mean iplayer, Amazon and netflix will all become possible. I won't need to set a windows update to download overnight, or wait 4 days for a new game to download over Steam.
I can get back online gaming. Anyone play DCS btw? I'm learning it, but would love to get online with it.
I'm bursting with excitement like a kid at Christmas, I had to share.