Merry Bloody Christmas.

We sucked up the 3mb cap. We still had ADSL right? It's still broadband, right?

Over the ensuing couple of years, we noticed the odd bit of flaky behaviour, but we still had ADSL right? We paid for our Internode "up to 8mb" service, and sucked up the fact that the RIM was capped at 3mb.

Last year, in an effort to extract ourselves a little further from Telstra's monopolistic clutch, we decommissioned our home phone line and opted for a VOIP solution with Internode. Woot, cheap calls! Three teenagers in the house can talk the leg off a donkey, VOIP was an awesome service.

Life is good. There is occasional connectivity flakiness, but nothing too bad. VOIP works, lots of donkeys sans legs around the place, but things are pretty peachy.

Timeline: November 2008. More flakiness starts appearing on the link. Sometimes the link is sloowwwwww. Like, painfully slow. Phone calls get choppy. Teenagers complain.

Christmas is a write-off. The link is butchered a lot of the time and is intermittently unusable.

Happy Frigging New Year.