I recently moved, back to the city where I work. I use the term “moved” somewhat loosely, however. 90% of my belongings are still at my home, but for the last two and a half months, I’ve spent the night there perhaps five times. The rest of the time I’ve been staying at my girlfriend’s. At the beginning of this month, we made it “official” that I’m “living here” (again).
As an I.T. professional, I need a high-speed broadband connection wherever I’m at. At my home, I had the best connection available, which was only 768/128 DSL. Prior to a few weeks ago, I would just move to a certain corner of my girlfriend’s house and connect up to an open access point if I needed to get online for a moment.
When it became “official” that I was going to be living here, I called up the cable company and placed an order for their high-speed Internet service. I did so at just the perfect time, right as they’re upgrading to 10 Mbit/s downstream (and 1 Mbit/s upstream). Anyways, I’m one of the first here to have an Internet connection at 10 Mbit/s (the fastest currently available within a 50-mile or so radius, I might add).
I don’t have all of my “geek gear” here as of yet, but I do have the new Gentoo box and my (XP) laptop. I also dug out some of my Cisco gear, which I haven’t really used in a year or two, and brought it up here as well.
Anyways, I now have a 10 Mbit/s Internet connection, with all of my packets travelling through my 100% “Cisco-powered network”. Not a big deal, I know, but I feel like a bit more of a geek when I can say that. =)
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