the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Change is painful

-at least for the impatient among us.

I’m in the midst of an ugly divorce from my old DSL provider, and because my new flame can’t just seemlessly take over for the old one, there’s going to be this cooling off period. Yes, it’s a return (for now) to the olden days of 56k web-crawling.

The first few hours have seemed unbearable, but I’m hoping that the next several days in dial-up purgatory will make next week’s return to high speed that much sweeter. One newfound friend that’s easing the strain on my patience is a Firefox extension known as Fasterfox. It works about twice as well as the accelerator built into my current dial-up fling.

[…] Just a couple snippets from my dial-up dungeon: […]

Hey, I’m really glad you posted this. I’ll be trying it as soon as I get home. Since my free (oh alright, borrowed) internet connection has been out for a while, I’ve been dialing up and it has been excruciating. I use firefox all the time, so this should help.

In the absence of actual speed, I’d have to say it’s a pretty neat extension.