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I bugged my mom to get me a broadband internet connection for my PC so I could download everything I want at the speed of light, and generally spend my spare time wasting away on cyberspace. Perhaps it’s to my advantage that the slowness of my Smart WiFi connection is preventing me from doing the latter. But damnit, give me my downloads at least!

You see, I’m the kind of person who’s too cheap to buy pirated games when I can just rip them off the ‘net. Why spend 90 bucks on a burned game CD when I can get them online for free? Take note that PC games usually have more than 1 CDs. So that’s at least 180 pesos spent on discs that I will only use once to install, and then never again. Currently I’m downloading 4 gigs of a PC game that I really really want to play - if you can call a transfer speed of 0.0 kb as “downloading”. It’s been on my TorrentStorm for a few days now, and with only 30% to go, you can imagine how frustrated I am that the progress bar is not moving at all.

Aside from my download problems, I can barely load websites and check my e-mail. Every now and then, there would be bursts of speed where the site would actually load. However, most of my surfing time is spent clicking on the “try again” button when Firefox can’t locate the server.

I did call customer service to complain but the problem won’t be remedied until 24 hours from now. So I guess I’ll have to contend with the dial-up speed of Smart Wifi for the rest of the day. Yargh. With the way I’m crawling through the intarnets right now, it’s amazing I was even able to get this entry up.