Mmm broadband gaming

Well we finally have the internet connected at home now. We’ve moved into our very own home and have spent the last month making it live-able; connecting electricity, changing locks, sealing gaps, fumigating from armies of ants (seriously, armies – def #3!), sanding and re-painting second-hand furniture and we are still pulling out the dreadful overgrown garden and trying to tidy it up.

Trying to get the internet connected has been a long process. We tracked down the (many) phone and data cables in our house and found we had both Optus and Telstra cable points. Too expensive. We settled on TPG ADSL2. Considered going naked but after hearing what a hassle it would be considering we didn’t have the phone connected in the first place we decided to just get a phone line anyway.

Wow, our connection is SO much faster than at our old place. Can’t wait to play online – let’s hope my little Ronin can keep up! Spartan certainly likes it. Yes our computers have names.

We’ve been chatting about multiplayer games we can play on our LAN such as Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six Vegas, maybe Left for Dead. Our friends around the place will jump in online when they get a chance. We’ve had two such conversations over the weekend about this – the most we’ve talked about gaming in months! Everyone else wants to talk to us about our house; it seems like such a rehearsed conversation (not that we’re not enjoying our new house; but that we DO have other interests, you know!).