One Of The Things I Can’t Live Without

…is the Internet. Especially now that I have several projects which include the use of the internet to expand their market and flexibilities, thus I have decided to subscribe to Cable Internet.

For those of you who haven’t heard of it, a while ago this new ISP (Internet Service Provider) called FastNet (a part of First Media cable provider) came up with their new internet cable services which started off from Rp. 99,000 for the speed of 368 kbps.

Since I’m already a subscriber of First Media cable services, I decided – after a long thought-processing and consideration – to take the next obvious step – which is subscribing to their cable internet service. Before this day, I was a desperate user of Telkomnyet Instan. Yes, that yoke who charges Rp. 10,000 per hour for a ridiculous speed of 21,8 kbps.

So on Monday I made an appointment with First Media Customer Service for the installation of FastNet at my house, which she booked for Wednesday the 30th scheduled between 9 am to 12 pm. As I have read from many other users who have subscribed to FastNet 768, it is as proven that the installation take two days after the appointment is made.

Although I’d been waiting since 9 am, the cable guys were nowhere to be seen, even when the clock struck 12 pm. Previously I’d made a couple of confirmation calls to the Customer Service and I also asked the ETA of the cable guys but the CS officer told me that I just had to wait. Hmm. I have heard several complains on forums and blogs about First Media Customer Services who seem to lack communications within each other so I told myself to be patient.

Nevertheless, I got a phone call around 12.30 pm saying that the cable guys were on their way to my house and they wanted to make sure I was home. They turned up at 1 pm and soon got busy with the cables and the modems and what elses.

After thirty minutes of installation, one of the guys who was installing the modem to my computer (his name was Winarto, the other guy struggling with the cables outside was Slamet) taught me to test the connection, and here’s the result:

I admit that opening sites such as Blogger or Yahoo has no longer become a time-consuming experience for me. Even for a site like blogger, I had to reload for at least 5 times (until I gave up) before the page actually came up because usually I just received a blank page with nothing in it whatsoever, which was why blogging into my personal blog had become a struggling activity which involved exercising my fingers (due from over clicking the mouse in such furious state).

After the cable guys bade their farewell, I rechecked the connection a couple of times again and this is the last result that I received:

Well, let’s just see how this one holds up, shall we?