This past week we have been working on getting our broadband internet hooked up in our new apartment. Last year we payed $125 for a whole year's worth of broadband, or about $12.50/month. This year we are looking to pay even less, about $8/month, for the same service.

But I think you get what you pay for. Chinese "broadband" is sometimes slower than dial-up in the USA. Customer service can be great at times, but at other times it can be downright awful. Yesterday I called to ask why our internet was not working even though I had payed the day before. They said that because it was a Saturday that the person who was supposed to do the work of re-connecting us to the web was probably not around and that we'd have to wait til another day.

So we are waiting and have been using a Chinese form of dial-up that costs about 60 cents an hour. But even today the dial-up wouldn't work for some reason. So that is why the last week or so has been almost completely "blog-less". Even now I am writing from an internet cafe in a neighboring city where we are spending the night.

As soon as our internet is back up and running, I have a lot of cool pictures to share from the last month's experiences.