It seems that my Corsa has developed the same problem that many others have, which under the circumstances I can neither afford or live with. Its steering column has begun to prefer steering in one direction, while it is quite funny to think of a car having preferred directions giving it a more Herb-like feel, it is a little worrying when the steering locks up while steering around corners to the point I’m afraid it may not steer when I turn the wheel.

Although mechanically the locking up is simply the electric motor of the powered steering responding to incorrect torque readings which means it is unlikely that the cars steering will fail it is still something that’s on the back of my mind. Hopefully things will be fixed tomorrow when the mechanic comes round to have a look at it, I like knowing a mechanic whom does house calls – now if only we could have that kind of service with doctors again, like in those old days.

I got much of my infomation from talking to people in the know and the rest from reading this. Image Source: Giles.

Don’t go anywhere near Eclipse if you ever want to download. Doesn’t matter if you have the top end unlimited package. Eclipse throttle ALL downloads. – Vambo

At 3am I can get a good 375kbs but at any normal time of the day I’m lucky to get around 50kbs. avoid them like the plague. – Not a Happy Man

Internet access is a total lottery and download speeds are pathetic. – Gabby

They still can’t get their act together to send an accurate final bill. I do not recommend Eclipse Internet Broadband. Ever. - Afmspace

Phoned their IT department to try and sort out the problems and in my opinion they were useless. - mdyches

Even though an unlimited, 8MB connection is promised, I continuously find it hard to reach a speed of 512kb - chimp14uk

So it appears i’m not alone, a large collection of bad reviews all documenting similar problems of poor service and terrible support. Unfortunately the broadband is paid for by parents as i’m staying at theirs for the summer and there is nothing I can do other than weather it out as they appear to be quite happy with it even with mine and my sisters complaints. While at university I have used ask4 and virgin broadband, both delivered me full 20Mbit broadband with no problems, we had one disruption with the virgin broadband and within a couple of hours of our call it was fixed I hate to imagine how long its taken eclipse to fix outages proof of their slowness is just a google away. Anyway less of the ranting, i’m off to look for an effective broadband package for going back to uni and possibly my own mobile broadband package for when at home.

The thing that has brought about this sudden turn around is I had been paying off my debts until I began going out with friends in Kent and like a fool spending all that I had procured. Those who live here and have had jobs of their own for a prolonged period most likely wont understand at all the problem with this, and with looking at their individual finances one can’t be surprised at this however they will have to be understanding of the situation I find myself in. I can’t afford to leave the house unless it is for monetary gain such as work because if I do no clear this debt by the time I return to university then I shall find my self in a predicament most unfavorable, leaving me not much choice other than to jeopardise my studies by taking on a time consuming job.

Anyway the entire point of this post is not simply to keep the website looking fresh, but is to share a little about what is going on and enlighten those who might not initially understand the reasoning behind certain decisions I have made of late.

I really like using Windows Live Writer for uploading to my blog so I hope this bug is fixed soon.