Broadband connections rock. Its true, I've finally got Telewest broadband (Blueyonder if you will) put in at the new flat, and oh my lord it rocks. Of course, I had to go that one step further and get the 1mb version, and OH MY GOD its fast. Distinctly faster than the connection at work. Now free porn and Kings of Leon mp3z can be mine.
The only problem I've had so far is getting a fucking firewall in place which was easy to use and configure and also did its job (because sorry, but I really don't trust the built in M$ one from Windows XP). So first of all I got an old version of Tiny Personal Firewall (2.0 or something) and it sucked. Then I got Tiny 5.1 and it really sucked, hard to configure and blocks everything down straight away (it took me a couple of hours of configuring it to even get my broadband connection back because it was blocking the computers request for an IP from telewest, and not even telling me what it was doing, cunting thing).
Anyway, I finally snapped and uninstalled it and downloaded Sygate Personal Firewall and it seems to be rocking my world. Easy configure-as-you-go type product that simply says "so and so is trying to do this or that. Do you want to let it?" and it remembers the rule (actually similar to Tiny 2.0 but seems to work better). Anyway, hopefully, my pain is over for a while and its all good - we have the home network up and running (once a decent firewalls in place, that was easy) and an internet connection from three PCs!! W00T!!! Or something similar.
- posted by Adam @ 10:56 pm