John Walker's Electronic House

An Explanation

by on Jan.25, 2007, under The Rest

So, since moving house I’ve had no broadband, and dial-up’s too painful to blog with. Especially when I can’t read the internet all day long. But now I’m in Washington DC, awake at 5.30am, writing this on my DS. The good news is when I get back I’ll have the fastest internet in the world.


7 Comments for this entry

  • The_B

    Is that like, SuperInternet or something?

  • Mark H Wilkinson

    No, it’s Hypernet.

  • Graham

    It’s a Local Loop Unbundled service, which means the ISP isn’t being held to ransom by BT and can offer a 24Mbit connection with no bandwidth cap for only £24 a month.

    It should be connected sometime later today, and if you think I’m not sitting here refreshing the connection status page every 20 minutes then you’ve got too much faith in me.

  • Graham

    “Your line is activated. You should now be able to enjoy ludicrosly fast Be broadband.”

    I’m thrilled, but ludicrosly? They’re missing a letter, and I’m not sure you want to describe your service with a synonym for foolish.

    Internet downloading, activate!

  • The_B

    If I ever launched an internet service, I’d provide a big fancy light show with fireworks and a big broadyway musical number annoucing the customer was connected.

    Of course, I’d probably only get one customer before my company went bankrupt, but otherwise the plan is sound.

  • Mike Jennings

    24mb? Holy mother of god.

    I want.

  • Steve W

    “24mb? Holy mother of god. I want.”

    You should Be (!) careful not to expect too quick a connection with them; the speed you will see depends very much upon your proximity to the local exchange. I’m told, for example, that a kilometre distance may give you speeds of about 14mb.

    http://www.samknows.com should tell you how close you are.

    No provider has as yet enabled my local exchange, though Sky and Be are currently in a race to do so. No matter, I’m only 300 yards distant, so should get the full benefit once they get around to it.