Speed Demon

Oooooh maaaaan. Telstra has been increasing our line rental cost quite a bit as of late and we're tired of paying two bills for our phone and internet connection. Today we called up our ISP iiNet to bundle our fixed line service with them and to upgrade our internet plan. The guy on the phone told us that it would probably take up to a week for the new speeds and configuration to kick in.

Seems like Christmas came early...



Previously we were on a 512k download plan with 24GB of quota per month. Now we have 40GB of download quota and a theoretical maximum speed of 24m. Just look at that download speed on Daria! I'd be lucky to get that much for ALL my torrents on the previous plan.

I also sneaked in a little example of the thumbnail previews you get of windows when you mouse over the task bar in Vista. Those update in real time too so it's real handy for keeping tabs on multiple applications.

At least it looks like I won't have to worry about bandwidth for downloading OSX software updates when my MacBook Pro arrives.

Edit:

YOWZAS! I feel like the kid who just moved from dialup to ISDN again...



Edit again:

Trumped yet once more