This week I'm working at The Eisteddfod in Mold, for the North Wales Welsh for Adults Centre. We're relying heavily on an internet connection as we're uploading photos, video and webcam output live to the website. It's kind of important to us.

The company providing the connection (I'll not mention names, but they're quite big in North Wales) are charging a fairly high fee for what's essentially just ADSL (think over £100 for a week). We've had in the region of 4 hours service during the 9 hours I was on site. When it was working, it was shaped to hell - mainly, I suspect, because it was ADSL. I'd be interested to know just how many customers are being shoved down a single DSL because the latency was shocking (131ms to a machine that usually returns about 5ms from my home ADSL, and <1ms from the University).

Hopefully the rest of the week will bring a better service, but I'm not holding out much hope.

In other news, apparently I walked through a shot which was subsequently broadcast on national (Wales) telly earlier this evening.