Welcome to the 21st Century

Yes I've finally had broadband for two weeks at home now. As I've been an Orange subscriber since it was owned by PCW Group and called Freeserve I copped out and stuck with them. I then saw the latest Which report listing them as an 'avoid at all costs' - nice.

Anyway my Livebox turned up the middle of week and all I had to do was wait for the email telling me it was active and ready to roll... and wait... and wait. Ah who am I joking I took it out and plugged it straight in. So I bypassed the dumb installation routine and jumped straight to the box settings after cracking the dumb as molasses username and password (changed that), set up the wireless, set up the encryption, got my PS3 to find it, changed the channel frequency to something that the PS3 would detect at greater then 50% strength (there's one wall and about four foot of distance between them), surprise surprise no connection I'd better wait for the email.

Pfft yeah right I left it for a day and then tried it in the morning - nope; evening - nope. Next day morning - nope; evening - yep a whopping 8Gbit download speed. So I've been happy checking out the PSN Store (and listing its faults, to be published) and all is well.

I find a letter waiting for me this afternoon from British Telecom informing me that they've had a request to switch my rental from them to Orange (quite correct) and that this would take place on 3rd September... so I'm using the BT line with the Orange Broadband? Well that's kind of neat isn't it I wonder when Orange will start charging me :-)