Moving on, as promised we now turn to the Internet connection.
You'd have thought, living in an urban environment, especially (though I say it myself) the posh part of town, that the broadband provision would be good.
Far from it. It seems that we live so far from the exchange that the best I can expect on an ADSLMax connection is 1 Mbit/s.
This isn't good enough. I want more. So I've taken the plunge and accepted a 12 month LLU ADSL2+ contract with O2. We're not out of the woods yet - the best I can expect from them is a 8 Mbit/s connection, and they're extremely cagey about whether we'll reach that. I suspect it will come in somewhere between 3 and 5 Mbit/s, which is still an improvement on 1 Mbit/s I suppose.
The nice bit is the price - given the discount for being a monthly O2 phone subscriber, this starts at £7.50 per month, with an additional £4.99 for the static IP address. Now the server and Exchange is no more, this isn't strictly necessary, but I like to know where I am.
Eclipse did come back with the MAC, just inside the five day period, so I can't complain there. Since I've already used it,. I don't think I'll be hearing any more from them, but I must remember to make sure the payment is cancelled. I've heard nasty rumours about how they go on extracting funds despite no longer providing a service, and I'll work with them to make sure it doesn't happen this time.
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