extinct, slow, birds

Did you know that Dodo means "sleeping" in french? That sure explains a lot.

At the beginning of the year I bought a deal off dodo. 3 months for $45 a month. This gives us unlimited downloads at 256kbps. This seemed good, but really it is not.

I worked out last week that between Claire and I, we rarely go over 5gb a month. I even worked out that a plan better suited for us with dodo, which would give us 10gb for $30. So I called (as it has been over 3 months) and asked to downgrade, and they told me it would cost a $60 downgrading fee. I don't exactly have money like that to throw around right now, so I figured I'd stay with them another 4 months if it was going to cost me that. Gr.

But my internet is useless. I am continously resetting the router. And then it wont let me sign into anything but skype, and then when I open firefox it only lets me into dodo's pages. This happens for about 5 days (somehow it eventually works). It seems to be around the time they take money out of my bank account (and there is heaps there!!) It also messes around with security certificates and wont let me into blogger. It lets me see my blog and gush, and that's about it.

Yes, I have called Dodo, and they don't seem to want to do anything about it. I can't actually understand them.

I think it's time to look for a new ISP. Can anyone reccomend me any? I'm looking for about 7ish Gb a month around the $30 mark. I found a good deal with Adam internet, but I'm pretty sure they only service South Australia. I am seriously ready to just go back to dial up, because it was actually more reliable.

And to top it off my antivirus software says I have a trojan. The weird thing about these trojans were they were setup files for google desktop. But look at this bizarre article, apparently it's intentional.