bulldog...

My dearest reader

Bulldog is okay, but I wasn't terribly impressed with the helpline fella who refused to give me the settings I need and who insisted that I tell him what settings I have and he would tell if they were correct. It turned out that they had emailed me the settings anyway, although I couldn't get to them because I didn't have a connection to the internet. Clever, eh? I was then told that my username was "incorrect" and my password was "incorrect" too. Both of which were given to me by Bulldog only a couple of days ago. It was all a bit like a Monty Python sketch. The good news is that with a tiny bit of fiddling, we now have some full-on broadband. It doesn't reach anything like the dizzy speeds of "8 Megs" as they would claim, but it does move along very nicely somewhere between 2.5-6Mb which is the fastest connection that I've ever had. Even my 2Mb connection from BT rarely went beyond 1.5Mb. So, it's very fast, but...it ain't 8Mb. I will be complaining, of course. I've already looked even more closely at their site and, bless 'em, they have a forum where users complain like buggery about the service. I like that. It turns out that the small print says quite clearly that the connection will be up to 8Mb. I also found out something interesting, apparently some routers have a 4Mb restriction on them. So I updated my firmware, and suffered a couple of minutes of panic as I thought I had well and truly messed it all up.

God, this is even boring me as I write it...I'll stop now. Hope you are all well and having a wonderful weekend. I'll write again soon. Until then, take care...

With fondest regards, yours

Mr McMuffin