I love my cable internet. OMG, it’s amazing! After more than a week, I still can’t believe it, but I’ve already reached a point when I have to use the dial up, that it seems ungodly slow. Since I want all my email on the laptop, and since I’m not networked, that means I’m facing this every day.
One of the coolest things about the high speed is how much time it cuts off for me in the morning. I have a set of sites I visit while I have coffee and it now takes me 5-10 minutes less than it did on dial up and I’ve added about half a dozen sites to my morning rounds. 
What I don’t like? It’s on my desktop computer. That poor thing is so old, it churns as it tries to keep up with the connection. But I saw Windows Vista was released and as soon as Service Pack 1 comes out to fix the problems in the initial release, I’m getting a new computer and getting networked so I can have high-speed when I use my laptop too.
I’ve said this before, I’ll probably have a stroke when I get the cable bill, but right now I’m loving this. Do you know that I even found the Super Bowl Shuffle video from the 1985 Bears and was able to play it? I’m ready for the big game now.
Tags: football, high-speed
Now you have no excuses, I expect to see you post on my blog sometime!
I’m glad that you finally upgraded your internet, I can’t imagine using dial up anymore (of course, when I’m desperate I’ll do what I have to do, LOL).
What about getting a wireless router instead of a new computer? I love being wireless and for the desktop you can still run a cable from the router to it while your laptop will be wireless.
I telecommute out of my house as a computer programmer. The first 2 1/2 years I used dialup, until high speed was available in my area. Now I turn into a weeping sniveling shivering mess if I have to use dialup. *cringe* I, too, have a router, and it’s wonderful. I can sit anywhere in the house on the laptop and check e-mail. Which is both a good and bad thing…..
wireless router, it is very very cool. With this you can surf the net any where is the house.
Leiha, Joely and Michelle,
A wireless router is definitely in my future.
But so is a new computer. I’ve been looking for about a year and trying to hang on until Windows Vista was released. This poor computer is old and slow and needs to be semi-retired. Soon. 
Patti