https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2009-09-14T11:55:00+01:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2009-09-14T11:55:00+01:002009-09-14T11:55:00+01:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2009-09-14:/~alex/blog/2009/09/14/unsurprising/

<p>The broadband fitting I expected to turn up on Saturday didn't actually materialise. It turns out the automated system got confused by our move from a cable area to a &quot;national&quot; area and went ahead and cancelled one without booking in the other. I'm not totally cut off though, I …</p>

<p>The broadband fitting I expected to turn up on Saturday didn't actually materialise. It turns out the automated system got confused by our move from a cable area to a &quot;national&quot; area and went ahead and cancelled one without booking in the other. I'm not totally cut off though, I have an excellent 5 bar + 3G signal in the new house. It does cause Fliss a bit of a problem for working from home until our new ADSL based service arrives though.</p> <p>It became clear in selecting ADSL we become second class broadband citizens. Our service levels drop from a choice of speeds (5-10-20mb) to &quot;up to 7mb&quot; and a choice of usage caps, in our case I went for the 40gb monthly limit. Hopefully however I'll be able to get an up-link to <a class="reference external" href="http://cbnl.com/">work</a> on a 10GHz up-link that will put the DSL solution to shame, especially if I'm the only one in the cell.</p> <p>Otherwise everything is slowly un-boxing and we await the next major delivery of bits and pieces on Wednesday. However undeterred we have already cooked a few meals on a lovely new gas hob, the horrors of the last year and a half on electric hobs now fading into distant memory. Curtains have been installed in key rooms which mean we do get a bit of a lie in when the sun comes up. I cycled in on my new route and found it to be a pretty easy and mostly off-road. We are pencilling in November for a house warming, hopefully we will be fully unpacked by then.</p>