Goodbye WoW

I almost had to say that for good.  A few of you people may have noticed how posts have been trailing off lately.  I AM NOT LEAVING.  Nor am I quitting the game.  But for a moment I almost thought I’d have to.  

Past few weeks have been hectic due to our family moving to a new house.  This house is going to be one of the first in a newly built subdivision and after calling around I’ve discovered my cable Internet provider does not lay their lines in a new subdivision until 80% of the houses have been sold.  Judging by the last time I drove through… I’m guessing they are around the 10% mark. =(  So I see that the phone provider for the new subdivision offers DSL.  I look up on their website and even find my street address in their system! So far I haven’t found my street address anywhere since the roads are so new.  This was a good sign.  Until their website loaded the screen saying it is not available.  /sadpanda.

I sat back and though about life without WoW, without online games…heck with out even Internet period.  So I started to scheme.  I work at a tech company and I’m on the computer all day (its where I get most my posting done =)), so I shouldn’t really be “without” connection.  I can still read up on WoW stuff and try to make my blog better by tapping a bit more into the news of WoW.  I could still twitter and BA chat with friends to keep a pulse on the game until High Speed moves into the area.  Most importantly I can spend more time with Family.  The normal routine as it stands now is come home, eat dinner, hang out for an hour and put the kids to bed.  Then its Raid till Midnight.  That’s every Monday-Thursday.  Sometimes I end up raiding Friday-Sunday as well because my guild is pushing hard in Sunwell (Felmist down!) to try and get as far as we can pre-Wrath.  I actually kind of thought this might be not so bad after all.  Life does exist outside of WoW after all doesn’t it?  …Well my wife said I’d be devastated anyway…thanks for the faith hun =).

Not all is lost however.  We use Vonage as our VoIP phone and not having Internet was going to put a damper on that.  So I had to call the phone company one way or another.  While I was on the phone I brought up the question of why my street address is in their system already but it still says no DSL.  This didn’t make much since to me because DSL is running on the telephone lines they have already laid (not the fiber optic cable that my current provider claimed they’d have to run for cable Internet).  Also the new sub division lies between to other we established areas so there should be a DSL hub somewhere near by.  After some checking the nice lady said yes their website data is out of date and DSL is available!  WOOT!  So by 11/3 I should have 1.5Mbps DSL and be back online.  I think now I have a 3Mbps line so I don’t think things will suffer that much.  Do any of you guys play on a 1.5Mbps connect?  Any issues?