dial-up

For the last week or two I've been down to dial-up internet speeds here at home. It sucks. Admittedly until about half a year ago, all I had ever known at home was dial-up. I think I had it for about 6 years. It was dodgy dial-up too. Was slower than your average dial-up, and would disconnect fairly often for no apparent reason. The worst thing was that I was so used to it. When my computer would freeze up for a second I knew that it was disconnected, and just got ready to reconnect. Friends I was chatting to online would figure it out and wait patiently for me to get back online. I wouldn't bother downloading attachments and files over 1 megabyte at home. The connecting tone became just a regular background noise.

Anyway, now that I've had a bit of a taste of awesome super-fast cable internet, it just doesn't feel right, having to wait for pages to load. Especially when the internet at work is now fast too. At least it doesn't disconnect on me every few minutes...