Monday 7 April 2008

BROADBAND ACCESS - A MUST

Imagine moving into a new house in 3 or 4 days time and you don't have any furniture?? Imagine trying to find the best deal on a car and you don't have one to run around to all the car sales lots to find it?? Imagine trying to find your way around a new country and not knowing where to go?? Imagine trying to find a house to rent in an area in your price range??

Each one of these tasks would blow my mind by itself - but we were faced with that situation shortly after arriving in the UK. Fotunately I had brought along my notebook computer and our family we were staying with had broadband access. Absoultely fantatsic!

We were able to find the right vehicle very quickly without having to drive around to too many places. How - Autotrader on the internet - of course. It even gave the distance we would have to travel from our current location to where the car we were interested in was.

We managed to order all our beds and matresses for next day delivery by searching on-line. Our TV and TV cabinet were also found and purchased on-line.

Yes you guessed it, we also found the house we rented - the delivery address for all these items on the internet as well.

Thinking back I'm not quite sure how we would have managed without broadband access.

The beauty of all this is that in the UK the monthly cost for unlimited broadband access (normally with a free wireless router/hub) is possible for under £20 from a number of different suppliers. So for South Afrcans this comes as a pleasant surprise bearing in mind the exhorbitant rates one has to pay there.

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