We’ve been sharing a DSL connection with our landlords until now which was – to say the least – frustrating. 384kbit/s isn’t awfully plenty and having to bridge it over three wireless access points didn’t make things easier. We’ve suffered from regular disconnects, lag spikes and most of all shortage of bandwidth all of which made it impossible to do simple tasks such as uploading photos, watch a youtube video or browse more than one modern web page at a time.

So our landlords and us decided to order a TV cable connection which includes a broadband internet connection. That sounds kinda simple, but in fact it included having to open the street, passing a cable 10 meters through the ground and from there passing TV and network cables throughout the house. The latter one turned out to be more difficult than expected because the tubes which carried the old (single shielded) TV cable now had to carry both a triple shielded TV cable as well as a CAT5 network cable to each of the three floors.

This all took a while, but now it’s done. After three months and three weeks we’ve finally got cable connection.

I now at least have the possibility to publish photos again and thus perhaps blog a little more. But it remains to be seen how long it will take me to realize that uploading one photo doesn’t take quarter an hour anymore. After all I’ve finally gotten used to reduce my internet consumption to a minimum.