Over the past few days i have come to acknowledge, the very large part that the Internet, plays for me. It is almost essentially the life line of my business. I post to my blogs via the internet, i connect with others via the internet, and i do a lot of my reading and research via the internet. This has been impacted to quite some extent over the past 3 dys now, that i have only been able to access internet either at home or by GPRS. The speed difference between 3G and GPRS is phenomenal.
In reality what this has meant is that i have been slowed down on many fronts. I have not done a lot of writing for my blog, as this i usually do away from home. Without decent connectivity, it literally does take me a few minutes just to connect to my blog, log in and got to the page to write a post. Which is what i have accepted as having to do today, to make this post. However Then writing is not so bad, except that you then also have to contest with ensuring that you copy it to a document elsewhere before you publish or save the draft, as it seems you get a lot more page cannot be loaded errors.
Creating connections with people is something that has also suffered as well, as i have found that the time to load and navigate sites like twitter, takes time as well. It can take up to a minute to change between the main feed and the @ replies. Posting sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.
I have been able to fall back a little to a project that i am working on. Which is a report, which i am about 50% done in creating the content. However this only the beginning of potential problems as, if this issue isn’t resolved soon, then it is going to impact more heavily on these area’s. My creativity is more open when out to work, which means i have to use my Mobile Broadband for internet access. Mostly due to less distractions i believe.
I am hoping that this is fixed soon, but if not i suppose i will just have to work to find ways around this inconvenience, and if not for a contract i would potentially look for another provider for my Mobile Broadband.