More money for Murdoch

So for the past three weeks or so we've been having all manner of problems with our broadband connection. Although we've only had a half-meg connection, for the past twenty one months its been (until recently) absolutely rock solid. Connections held for months at a time. Ok, it took three months and four engineers to get it up and running - but since then its been fine. Then it started dropping connections for hours, then days at a time. Twenty calls to Tesco later I eventually gave up with their Customer Services and got put through to the optimistically titled 'Retentions Department' to process my cancellation. It was busy and they promised to call me back when someone was free. How bad a sign is that? Anyhoo, as good as their word someone called Oliver called five minutes later and I explained the issues. He sounded resigned to the cancellation and made polite noises about the lack of progress on my problem. My MAC address takes two working days to generate and then we'll be on the phone to SKY. Jules got sent details of their new Surf, Speak and See package. Free calls evenings and weekends, hundreds of telly channels and (up to) eight meg downloads (we shall see, anything above half meg would be a bonus for me) and a 40Gb download limit (looks like I'll become a regular of the xvid movie bins going forward) . Fingers crossed their wireless router and LLU service has had any problems ironed out since it was launched last autumn. I said I'd never go back to SKY but sure enough their guy is coming with the new dish'n'box on Saturday. On the plus side it leaves the door open to adding HD/SKY+ when money permits..