I'm Back...

    So, OK, maybe it wasn't this dramatic. But this is pretty close to how I looked the moment I discovered just how greasy fast my new Verizon Fios connection is. Yes, it figuratively blew my hair back. To give you an idea of how fast it is: I've already downloaded the entire fourth season of Stranger Things on Frostwire. I exceeded speeds of 3 megabaud per second or 3000 kilobauds. With the other assholes, I could expect no more than 90, maybe 91 kilobaud per second for very brief periods of time. 

     To put that in perspective, if I wanted to download all 5.14 gigabytes of the file with the old connection, I would literally have to wait two days and then some before I could watch all seven episodes. To put it in starker terms, for just another $15 a month, my download speed is now literally 33 times faster than it ever was. It's like getting off a dead horse after a week and jumping into a Lamborghini.

     So, it was with a great sigh of relief when I finally unplugged my old router and threw it in the trash with nary a Fare Thee Well after almost 12 years of technological victimhood and higher rates. In all the years I've been using Frostwire, I've never had or even hitchhiked on a connection this lightning fast.

    Verizon even waived half the installation fee ($100) so I only had to pay $99.95 for the installation and first month of service. In short, even though this will set us back, this is the best $99.95 I ever spent and I would've been happy paying the $150. The most amazing aspect of this is that I chose the cheapest and slowest rate they had.

     So, what does this mean to you, Constant Readers? Well, hopefully, more consistent internet service which guarantees more consistent posting by yours truly. Yes, I'm working on a new Scott Carson novel but that's never slowed me down or kept me from blogging before.