My home broadband connection has been upgraded. In an improvement from the previous 5Mb download and 250Kb upload, I’m now getting 29.75Mb download and 2Mb upload.
I recognise that for some people in other parts of the country/world, even these new figures might be seen as being pretty pathetic, but for here, in the primary town of our Prime Minister’s very own constituency, these are strong numbers.
I had a nice chat with the Openreach engineer as he was doing his stuff.
He looked at the guitars, the music stand, the music, the writing-in-progress, the photographs of me and the horses and said ‘Is there anything you don’t do?’
‘Loads!’, was my reply. ‘Absolutely loads’.
And now, as I have the day booked off as leave, to celebrate the stupendous broadband upgrade I shall…
Go to work.
No, me neither.
Good for you. Down here on the sunny south coast, I’m still struggling on about 1.7Mb download.
We keep being told that this area is due to be upgraded, but no-body knows when….
I am green with envy sir.
However, hopefully not for long.
VM say they will be tripling my speed (up to 60MB) in July.
What I find more exciting though, is the prospect of the much improved upload speed of 6MB. This makes storing stuff in ‘The Cloud’ a far more viable prospect.