Today, my Internet connection has been upgraded. For no extra cash, BT gave me the opportunity to upgrade to 8Mb broadband. The only thing was that only after I had signed up for the upgrade that they revealed that we could only get 4.5Mb broadband in this area – but when they did finally switch over my connection it was 5.5Mb. How fricking riveting was that? Did I just send you to sleep then? I know I nearly nodded off while I was typing it.
Anyhoo, the really interesting this about this service upgrade is that for £30 they would send me a new broadband router. Why? Well, with this upgrade there’s a thing called BT Broadband Talk which gives you a VOIP (Voice over IP – basically Internet Telephony) with a standard phone set connected to your router. I even get my own “05 ” number so people could call me. The upside is that I get free evening and weekend calls and considerable lower call charges when calling abroad. The downside is that I don’t actually know anyone who I can call or who would actually call me – such is the life of the modern 21st Century Electronic Hermit. The service did work very well when The Missus used it to call her nan. She reckoned that the line quality was better than our exisiting phone line.
Well at least I can download porn at three times my normal speed. JOKE – I just wanted include the word “porn” to send the Googlebots wild. Some more Google Mind FuckTM words you might want to include in your blogs are “Syed and Michelle pictures” – that combination of words has been bringing lots of Apprentice fans seeking on-show romantic entanglements this way.

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