New Outlet and Ongoing Internet Provider Problems

So, after that last article, I felt you deserved an update on things. The first and foremost is that I will now be working as a staff member on TechRaptor. While most of the video game reviews will still be featured on Starburst Magazine, news and a few other pieces will be shown on there. With luck, this should become a regular thing, with a few ideas, concepts and articles emerging on that website as we maintain work on this one. It's never wise to have all of your eggs in one basket, after all, and they have produced more than enough good content in the past.

That's the good news, but unfortunately, we have some bad news.

You might have noticed that more than a few articles have been delayed or fail to show up on time. The Codex: T'au Empire review is the most recent example as, rather than going up on the night of its release as I like, it's almost a week late. There's a reason for that. Almost everything I have on here is reliant on having a good internet connection now, from working on Google documents to fact-checking to downloading review copies. It's a good system as a rule, and it does help to speed things up in the long run. At least it should, assuming you have a good internet provider. Well, over the past months ours has not so much shit the bed as unleashed a deluge of sewage into the airing cupboard.

Over the past several weeks, it has become a common occurrence to fight just to stay online at every other minute of the day. Computers will randomly disconnect, the link will drop and for every minute I am online, five will pass where it is impossibly slow or I cannot access it at all. Over the past three days, this reached the point where I managed to get perhaps four or five hours of work, over a planned 22 or so.

If you feel that this is an exaggeration, then keep in mind that our broadband connection - which we are paying a good download speed of 26.93mb for - often has a download speed of 1.81mb and an upload speed of 0.77mb. Or, if you don't want to take my word for it, here's a few reviews. This is the sort of company who is happy to charge you through the nose, but will not provide a fraction of the service you are paying for. The sort of one which is only standing due to a borderline monopoly on the system. So, it's the UK equivalent of Comcast, really. Until it is sorted out, one way or another, there is only so much I can do.