I miss fast internet

I am completely aware that “fast internet” is entirely relative, and my internet conection is only slow in comparison to what I’ve been using for the past two years, but it’s still frustrating sometimes.

When I’m at home, aside from cable (which wasn’t feasibly priced), our only option was to get relatively slow DSL. I’m pretty sure it’s 256k DSL. That was top of the line five years ago, but now it’s painstakingly slow - especially since it’s DSL.

If we’re downloading anything, checking e-mail is impossible. If someone’s playing a game, you can’t really browse the internet (or maybe it goes the other way).

I get these brief glimpses of ridiculously fast internet when I’m back on school campus and I tap into the wireless oxy network - I just downloaded about 50 e-mails in less than a minute. That wouldn’t happen at home.

Le sigh.