h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It's burgundy though Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find one in Green.

Keep scouting!

*Tucks in to food*

arr
last time we bought a Red one and it turnd gren when we brought it in the room.

Mmm, you have a point. The third law of Green Room physics does state that any object entering the room turns green. It happens to researchers too if they stay still for too long

cool

BROADBAND! -

Bah humbug!!! I'm sulking and not talking to 2legs. Anyway, my internet connection is far to slow to carry on a conversation It's so slow I can't even fill my glass up.

Awww : but just remember, the fact I'm willing to pay many tens of pounds a month to have broadband, just shows how sad and addicted I am : and It was a real hastle to set up
Actually, strange thing was, when I first got back, just using teh modum in a normal way with phone line, gave me one of the fastest connection speeds I['ve ever had with a modum why can't I spel modem? <?> <?> <?>

Hi again (munches on ) dont worry so much its not at totally brilliant as advertised.

It's got to be better than mine, anything is better than my computer. The poor old hamster inside is on its last legs. I know, I can hear the death rattle in between its tired, little squeaks.

Is h2g2 faster with broadband

I tried it with a broad band, it kept the hair out of my eyes and I typed faster Sorry, long day... Wouldn't know, my modem is very, very old and very, very slow, tieing two tin cans with a bit of string and pulling tight would relay information more efficiently. Not that I'm bitter

I have been thinking about going on it but I ant sure, you get a new modem kind of thing i think

Pass - I'm not the most technologically minded person on the planet. Anyone else got a clue?

Well I know that you can still use the phone and be on the web at the same time


manda

Well, I can't speak knowelidgbly.
Or inteligibly.
or use punctueation appropiatly, obviously...

What I was trying to say before this pickle unabandoningly disturbed my trane of thought, was:

I can only speak for what I've got/had.

I'm on NTL broadband.
Which means I have a cable modum, that attaches to the box on teh wall next to the phone socket: which I think is also able to be used to provide cable TV, should, for some strange reason i decided I wanted umpteen channels of rubbish and propaganda

It cost, or would have, had there not been some offer on, £50 for them to connect it up, and you are given the cable modum, (I guess they still own it, and will take it back when I end my contract).
Talking of contract, with NTL, its a minimum 12 month contract.
On the NTL thing, you can have several different packages, but with each you must also have either phone, or/and cable TV package.
So I have phone with them, and the broadband.

The broadband itself they provide in several different speeds, 200and something... 500and something and the fastest one they do (WHICH I HAVE!), is the 1MB service However, it certainly isn't as fast as the connection I had at manchester uni, as the bandwidth alloted was greater there. It is however faster, and is "always on":
Which basically means, rather than waiting for the dial up screen, and the "connecting to site...", and then the "varifying user name...", bit, it just directly starts opening the webpage you decided to open Whilst on a site, take H2G2 for example, pages are somewhat quicker to load, though I guess this is also determined by teh speed of your graphics card, and memory/processor speed Downloads are a lot faster, but again would be a lot faster again (if you are downloading something and saving it to disk), if the harddrive would write at a higher speed Its certainly quicker, but as to weather its worth the rediculus amount of money, I'm not sure I think BT also do a broadband package, but I'm not sure how that works, though I think it is cheaper though I'm not sure and, yes, as the broadband I have uses its connection through teh cfable TV box thing on teh wall, the phone socket for my NTL phone is free, well no its not : the phone is plugged in to it but I can type on here and talk on teh phone line at the same time If anyone ever rang me or I had anyone to ring I'm sure most other people round here know more about this than I do

Hi,

My name is (please read it up there), and after such a short time, I am, an H2G2, addict....

do not you are special H2G2sapien now.

Thank you...

no need thank me
... thank the anthropologist who discovered it in march 2002

it being the H2G2sapiens

Relaxes...