Oh the horror!

[hrj]

One forgets. So quickly one forgets the gnawing, ichor-dripping, Lovecraftian horror that is dial-up on the internet. Ah, but hope gleams brightly. After nearly 24 hours of no DSL, no sooner had I dredged up the phone-line splitter, the extra long cord, and the dial-up utility -- no sooner had I suffered through the downloading of a hundred e-mails at near-manuscript speed -- than Earthlink relented and released the DSL from its prison.

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[kareina.livejournal.com]

Oh, how I wish I *could* forget! As etfb implied above, internet is different down under. For reasons I cannot comprehend (other than avarice on the part of the business owners), internet in Australia comes with "download limits"--anything we do on line, be it as simple as simply looking at a web page counts towards that limit. If we should exceed that limit in a month they reduce us to dial-up speeds for the remainder of the month. With four people in the house that limit is often exceeded. :-(