After the hassle I’ve been having with AOL, I have decided to change my provider to BT. This wasn’t a decision I made lightly as I was getting a connection of:

When I was looking at a change of provider, I did a check and it said that my postcode could get up to 3mbps whilst my phone line could only mananage 0.526mbps. I stopped short the first time and decided to hold off a bit with AOL, but then my connection went again and again. I know it was AOL as one of my neighbours also had the same problem and is also with TalkTalk who took over AOL, whereas a neighbour in between us who is with BT kept her connection.

Yesterday, my provider changed to BT after a hitch, and I have just run a speed test as it was a little fast downloading a program earlier. This is the new result:

I definitely made the right decision to change.

I am completely hacked off with the way FaceBook is playing up at the moment. It’s not just me. Half the applications don’t work, and the chat keeps signing people out and in again. I have just sent a message to Facebook to their ideas section:

The idea that I have is to sort the bloody thing out so that you can allow us to use it. You are going to end up losing a lot of people if you don’t deal with this. I’m sure MySpace and Bebo can use the custom.
Maybe more servers or getting rid of the crap applications. It is utter stupidity not being able to get on. Please let me know that you will deal with this.
Thank you very much
Alastair Forbes

I am hoping that this will get a response that at the least tells me what is happening.

Had counselling yesterday – 21st July. Took the kids with me because there was no one else who could have them at the time. They stayed in the waiting room with a DS each while I went into the other room with my counsellor. Was difficult this week. Hoping that it’s going to improve over the next few weeks.

Dropped my phone again yesterday and have just ordered a new screen for it. Why didn’t I take out the accidental damage cover when I brought it?? Grrrr. Too late now tho. My daughter has said that I can borrow her phone until my one gets fixed, which was really nice of her.

Last 2 nights I have fallen asleep on the sofa. Tuesday morning my son came down and found me asleep, and last night I woke up 3am and decided to go to bed. Both times I had been watching 24 season 3. I think I should start watching them earlier in the evening rather than about 11pm.

Lost my internet AGAIN last night for hours. I really need to change providers. Waiting for my MAC from AOL, so that I can change. I have been having a shop around to see what I can get. BT offer my postcode up to 3mbps (megabits per second) where the average in the country is 5. I did a telephone number test and it said that I could only get 0.5mbps which is slightly faster than dial up, anmd I know I am getting faster than that. I have done a speed test:

This shows that I am getting a download of 2.28 megabits per second. So what do I do? Do I go for BT and hope that they can give me my 3mbps connection and get a wireless dongle for hotspots across the country so I can connect where I want to for free. Or do I go for Virgin Media where I get fibre optic broadband of up to 10mbps which is really fast – but no dongle. Arrrggghhhhh why isn’t anything easy?

Just four little words: I WANT A PLEO!

They are gorgeous! Who’s going to buy me one? Please. Pretty please?

http://www.pleoworld.com