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Eircom, the telco everyone loves to hate, has announced that they are upgrading their bitstream broadband products all round… unless you’re on a 1Mb deal, in which case it sucks to be you.

Press release

If you’re on a 2Mb product you’ll be going to 3Mb.
If you’re on 3Mb you’ll be going to 7.6Mb.
If you’re on 4Mb you’ll be going to 10Mb.
If you’re on 6Mb you’ll be going to 12Mb.

All of the above depends on the poxy Eircom copper between you and the exchange being up to the task. They haven’t mentioned if there will be any change in upstream speeds yet. Upgrades are being rolled out between now and June. Apparently this is all part of Eircom’s ADSL2+ rollout.

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Since I got that nice cheap RAM the other day, I’ve now got more memory than 32-bit operating systems can address. I’m running Windows Vista Home Premium. Fortunately Microsoft allow you to use your Vista CD key for either 32 or 64-bit (not both at once, obviously), but you have to pay them to get the 64-bit disc, unless you have Vista Ultimate. The fee is a mere €10+vat. What was most surprising is that I ordered it yesterday and it arrived today. From Germany. Via UPS. I suspect that cost them more than my tenner! And that’s after their website said to wait up to 28 days for delivery

I’m going to upgrade tonight, so see you later. Unless it doesn’t work. Uh oh.

Update: That went rather well. Everything seems faster. So much so that I’m beginning to think something was wrong with my 32-bit installation!

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