Awesome to the Max(DSL)

Last week, I migrated away from Plus.net and moved to IDNet. I'd heard excellent things about their service and support, and figured things couldn't be any worse than Plus.net, so they were worth a go. Don't get me wrong - Plus.net are fine for the more casual user, but their bandwidth throttling was driving me insane.

Part of the reason for moving was my damned impetuous nature. Knowing that MaxDSL was available to me but that Plus.net couldn't tell me when they'd process my upgrade, and that when they did upgrade me I'd still be throttled down to a fraction of the awesome bandwidth available to me was too much!

I've so far been hugely impressed with IDNet. When I encountered a minor hiccup on migration (I'd been emailed the wrong password) I called their support line, and someone phoned me back within 15 minutes. Not only that, but the guy that phoned back was polite, intelligent, and a credit to his company. It even turned out that the password I'd originally selected was the one they used, but I'd completely forgotten it.

BT's MaxDSL kit is still working its voodoo (apparently it tries to calculate the maximum speed for your line over a ten day period), but it looks like my download rate will be somewhere around 6.5mb. It's peaked at 7.5, but the line was unstable so it's dropped again. I remember fondly the days when a 56k modem seemed like an awesome upgrade (oh, how excited we all got about V.90) so to jump from a 2mb connection to a 6.5mb connection seems unreal. I can now (pretty much) stream the HD trailers from Apple's site.

So excuse me - I have more trailers to download. Nothing interesting; I just like to watch the little bar fill up before the video stops playing!