Hurrayyyy, Internet connection at last !!

At last !! after waiting 2 weeks my Live box arrived yesterday (actually there were no name boards on our door) so it was lying in the post office. unfortunately the instruction book was in all languages except english !! oooh. But luckily the visuals were self explanatory and was able to connect the live box thing in 10 mins and the livebox had a wireless builtin, so i can happily surf with my laptop with out wires hanging around.

First thing i did after connecting was to check the download speed, i was not really sure if it can deliver really the promised bandwidth of 8Mbps, yes indeed !!, the data started flowing at an incredible speed of 800KB !!, it mayb be common here for such bandwidth, but for me who was used to max of 32KBps download , it was really amazing, i activated my usenet account and started to put for download some movies which i have missed from last month, it took 14 Mins !! for the entire Divx movie :). Man finally some happy moments in France !!.

Long Absence

Hmm quite a while since i blogged, well not much to blog from past 2 weeks. I was down with fever and just recovered, and also moving into new house from hotel, means no internet connetion for another few days. Have applied for a french telecom connection last week DSL2+ and they have promised a whopping 18Mbps line !!, never heard of that kinda speed before, will be really exciting to experience that kind of speed.

Finally my cargo arrived from Paris, (5 days back) and now i have all my clothing and most importantly Indian food !!. I was almost starving last 2 weeks, and really fedup with eating bread daily. well the french do have some really great food, but let me tell you, they are nowwhere near to our style of food :). most of the dishes are made of Beef and Pork which i never touched in life (and not intention of in future !!). so my advise to anyone visiting on longterms, pack as much food from india as possible !!.

i went to the superbazaar yesterday to buy some groceries and kitchen items, God the rates were were terrifying, check this for 1/2 KG Potato its 1.5 Euro (85 Rupees) and tomato 2.3 Euro for 1/2 kg !! and 1 lemon 0.8 Euro !!. and a small coffee vessel 10Euro, god help me in staying here.

Just a small addition after seeing a comment from swaroop, please note i am not trying to make comparisons here between Euro and Rupee (the above conversion is only for sake of conversion not comparison), but i do feel the cost ratio is pretty high in europe !! and nowhere near to the cost index of 1.73.