Slow Connection

Preface (I know it’s not a book I just like the sound of it):

I was going to write about my country “Yemen” but then I thought that would be kinda lame if you want to know the “Official” info about Yemen just go to Google and type “Yemen”.

Ok let’s break things down a little bit (for the ones who don’t know any Arabic), my Name is Thamood and I’m 22 (turning 23 next august) and I’m a computer science graduate and that’s about it (what more do you want to know) and did I say I’m from YEMEN?.

Intro: my life & slow connections:

Yeah it’s 2006 and for the most of us in Yemen we are still using the dial-up connection to the internet (OMG….yeah I know), but hey it’s not bad at least you learn some things while you are waiting to download your 300KB picture (yes we wait for those kind of things), because we only have like 2 ISPs and both of them are complete idiots and don’t know what is the meaning of the word “Technology” or “DSL” (I’m wondering if they are still using windows 3.11)!!!

They do have ADSL connections but for the most of us (I mean the Yemeni people) and comparing it to the income it’s kinda expensive (plus it’s for only 120 hours a month STUPID TELECOM MINESTRY) that’s why internet cafes are so much popular than home internet here (which I hate coz people here are so NOSY they like to watch what you do all the time and there is no privacy).

I do have a dial up connection at home which I use a lot, but I really wish more ISPs could come here so they can free us from this HUUUUUGE problem, we are not fully using the internet, and we have to wait like 10 min for a flash to open or a picture to be downloaded!!!
Yes we can go to internet cafes but it not really that great too because sometimes someone might be downloading something using download managers like flash get or some program like that and the whole line would become slow!!!!! GOD please send us ISPs plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - i used SOME a lot in this last piece lolz ;)