22 March 2007

Broadband

It was my usual Wednesday afternoon and came home early from work picked up MLR, then called in for supplies at the local shop as CJK and the kids were coming over for afternoon tea. Tidied up a bit and put the food out and CJK and co arrived. We were busy chatting and eating when someone else turned up at the door, Kieran from



turned up

We get our gas, electricity, water, isp, phone and cable tv from this mob. He wanted to know if we wanted to increase our discount on our gas? Let's see, well of course. I got the details of our billing account and then he asked if there was anything else? Big mistake.

Mondo: Can we get a better download speed? Sometimes it takes 20 minutes to load a photo to this blog!!!
Kieran: What plan are you on?
Mondo: the extra slow speed plan, think it might be called the "snail package"
Kieran: can you find some paperwork?

At this stage I invited Kieran in and offered him coffee which CJK kindly made while I checked out more moth balls paperwork.

Kieran filled in some forms and then wanted JSR's signature!!!!! I rang JSR who agreed to talk to Kieran when he got home. Kieran agreed to come back at 7pm for the signature.

It was when JSR talked to Kieran that I found out that we on a plan with less than 1 gig of download a month, and that we ran through it in less than a week. We are now on a plan that allows us 5 gig a month, costs $20 less a month and has unlimited downloads between midnight and 6am which is prime time for me!

Kieran was an interesting person, he and his wife had just come back from 6 years travel, working in Canada, Italy, Africa and Scotland to name a few places. It all sounded fantastic. He had done some caddying at one of "the" golf courses in Scotland and proceded to talk golf with John. Kieran's wife while in Italy was diagnosed with coeliac's disease, so of course both CJK and I started talking about good recipe's for coeliac's.

We should get the faster speed at the end of our billing cycle, which is coming up this weekend. So watch this spot.

All in all it was a great afternoon.

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