At this point I am really ready to start work. So I was checking out phones and internet connections today. I have had a bit of noise on the phone line – and I spotted that the internet connection was running a bit slow and sometimes not at all.
So I ran the automatic line test – which failed to complete on the first time because the internet was so bad. Then I got it to run and it told me there was no problem. Hmm, 50% of the guaranteed speed is a problem in my eyes.
So I had to call the help line, who agreed with me. At the same time I asked about a new contract. At that point they told me they could only offer 36Mb – which I thought was odd because I had 63Mb, or so I thought. Apparently they have downgraded my line, but not my price.
They have now backdated the reduction in contract price.
To be honest I’m not really that bothered – my internet speed is fast enough.
I’ve been editing a video of our USA 1996 trip, with lots of open spaces. It made me think about the lifestyle of the recent past there. It is amazing how big a change there has been over a short time period. We have an insatiable drive for bigger and better.
I would love faster internet, why, not sure, I don’t need it. Do we really need to keep stumbling headlong into a more complicated world. Certainly this virus has made people start to ask questions.
I remember the young people calling for a more local lifestyle at the climate change conference in Cambridge. It is almost like they saw this crisis coming. I remember thinking how hard it would be to achieve – and yet it now looks achievable.