Ok, I am now writing from my apartment with my spankin’ new internet connection. I feel human again. I haven’t surfed the internet this much in months. If you are in Bucerias and would like a little free internet, if you can find the street where I live, my wireless network is called “free_the_internet” and has no password. I live near the Notary.
You’re welcome.
I’ve been testing my connection to see if I am getting my full 236 kbps that is in my contract. and even though the speed meter that is built into my 2wire modem/wireless/router/firewall thing says that I am getting the full 256 kbps, I seriously doubt it. When I check 2wire’s speed meter from their site, it never goes above 148 kbps and I have network monitoring software that gives me a “Peak Throughput” that hasn’t gone above 127 kbps either and in fact, since the last time I restarted the connection (about an hour ago), the Peak Throughput is at 29 kbps. This might seem like gibberish to you, but to put it in human terms, it means it takes me 20 minutes to watch a large movie trailer at Apple.com. In LA on a 256kbps connection, I could watch the very same trailer almost at the same time it was downloading (assuming i gave it 30 seconds or so to cache a little bit first). Hmm, Miguel tells me to shut up and be happy that I even have broadband, maybe i should just be happy with it…
.. nah! that’s stupid. i want my full bandwidth. gimme my full bandwidth.
