World Cup Rant #1

This blog post originally started as a Facebook post until I hit submit and was told that it was too long. What's with the limits on post length, Facebook guys? Thou shalt not follow the Twitter to do evil. Anyway...

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I'm confused...

When you sign up for ADSL does the contract state that you are supposed to get the performance you pay for approximately 3 days out of the month? How is it that my "4Mbps" package is insufficient to support a 1Mbps video stream for my Net2Vu player?

People in Europe and Asia have 100Mb internet access in their house and I can't get 1Mbps to stream. Oh wait, and they raised prices! How can a company justify lowering quality while raising prices? Their new motto should be "LIME - For that bitter after taste in your mouth."

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The World Cup Starts on Friday! I am (well was) eagerly looking forward to watching every match I could. For those of you who don't know, Barbados has three TV providers - CBC, DirecTV and the brand new Net2Vu, who stream live TV channels to a set top box in your living room via the internet. 

Not one to take chances with events as important as the World Cup, I have service from two of the three - Net2Vu and DirecTV. If I told you that only 1 provider was actually carrying any World Cup programming would you believe me? Guess which one. Go ahead guess. I'll give you a hint, NEITHER OF THE TWO I HAVE! If this was the World Field Hockey Championships or the World Cup of Curling, I would find it as funny as you no doubt do. BUT IT'S THE WORLD CUP! You are telling me that the cheap at DirecTV couldn't pay to license it? It's not exactly a recurring expense. It happens once every FOUR YEARS! Incidentally, I had CBC at one point but got rid of them due to poor service and the fact that their set top boxes had a bad reputation for overheating and setting stuff on fire.

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So here I am, stuck hoping:

1. That I can find World Cup matches to watch on TVU Player
2. That the commentary is actually in English since most channels on TVU are from The Republic of Dontspeakenglishistan
3. That my "4Mbps" ADSL will actually allow me to stream the channel if I find it.

Wish me luck.