Yesterday we signed up with an internet, home phone and TV provider for our new home. We chose the cheapest plan for now which is 10GB of usage during the day and 10GB of usage during the night with free calls anywhere to Australia, cheap international calls and the basic TV package. All this for the very reasonable sum of a pint of blood, a quart of stem cells and Zaren. We'll likely increase to a more robust plan within 15 minutes of hooking it up as we'll have someone on the laptop, someone on the iPad and 3 other someone's on their iPods at all times. Unfortunately, the kids aren't in school, haven't really met anyone yet and don't have much to do so they are spending a lot of time on the computer and TV. Hopefully when we get to the new place they can walk down the street and hang out at the beach.
Unfortunately it will probably take until Thursday (Wednesday in the Great White North) for it all to get hooked up. WA (Western Australia) is commonly known as "wait awhile", and this is only one example. The plan we chose (ADSL) runs through the phone lines. We were initially going to go with the cable (naked DSL) but that would have taken 2-3 weeks to get access! So, starting on Saturday morning (Friday night in the Southern Arctic) we will be likely out of reach by email, Skype, etc.
We've still got a couple days of "free" internet left but if we don't reply or write or call or send flowers... it's us, not you. See you on the other side!
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