Cats are back "home" / Real Internet Speed

Cats are back „home“ Real Internet Speed /

On Thursday we did celebrate our 10 year -Anniversary. We picked up the five cats that were castrated at the shelter. All went amazing well. All cats are now chipped, and castrated. They were even de-wormed and de-ticked. And all we did was pay the gas and gave them a tiny donation of €25 - the rest was paid for by “Aktion Tier” The mother cat and all four babies remain in the area of our development - they all came back to be fed - Thursday night, after we returned for the movie The Devil Wears Prada there was one hedgehog and six cats waiting to be fed ( yes, six - Daddy was there as well - we did not manage to catch him - ) the movie btw was a lot of fun.

For the past seven weeks we have experience with something called Vodafone At Home Easy Box allowing us internet access through a mobile modem. Due to the fact, that the development that we live in was built in the late 90’s when DSL was still being tested German Telekom smart as they are used fiber optics to connect our phone and cable TV lines to the main switch. Unfortunately DSL only works on copper lines, thus for the past seven years we have simply been waiting for a real internet connection or a flat rate or anything of that matter. Now it is 2006 and German Telekom is up again and re-arranging millions of kilometers of new fiber optic lines to connect homes to the phone switches to allow download speeds of up to 50 Mbit/s. Well you can guess - the fiber optic lines that have used here in the late 90’s are not compatible with the new switches, thus nothing for us.
However, we can now use the new 3G network to use Internet Access though a wireless and mobile modem.
On Friday they must have upgraded our mobile tower, because we can finally surf with real speed. 1.8 Mbit/s. We can finally watch a movie preview or must not worry about a new 30MB Microsoft Update. Mind you it is not cheap, but so rewarding ‘cos you no longer sit and wait in front of the monitor to wait and wait and wait.

T
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