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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Sky Internet?

Yesterday my Sky (Satellite) TV broke. It would only display a few random channels, and couldn't get listings and stuff like that. I rang them up and after the mandatory (try this, do that bla bla) they decided that it was a hardware fault and needed an engineer.
So he showed up today, and managed to fix it in 10 minutes (The LNB was faulty). Anyhow, he saw the geeky things in the house and starting telling me about how cool HDTV is and if I saw it I wouldn't believe it. So I showed him a selection of movies I have in HDTV, and his jaw dropped :p But that's not why I'm blogging this (bragging is cool though sometimes). He was telling me that Sky recently purchased Easynet (a UK ISP), and are going to provide internet via satellite come December.

Ofcourse, the concept is ages old, but the last time I read about it you had to go to your ISP's website and request files from them, and then they would prepare them to be downloaded via your dish. He says that this isn't the case and it'll be dish2usb2pc directly just like any other connection. Exciting thing is, it'll be 50mbyte/sec UP AND DOWN!

Now, either I'm going to be very happy come December, or that said engineer will have to go in hiding to avoid my wrath. Watch this space :)

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