Reddit reviews The Original Internet Address Book

I'm currently camped out at my grandmother's house taking care of her while she recovers from complications of a heart valve replacement.


We are in the heart of the silicon valley (go east a couple miles and reach eBay intergalactic headquarters) and her internet connection is... Sonic.net DSL that my dad set her up with years ago. It's so freaking slow. 1.4 megabits from the test I just used on fast.com (the one using Netflix servers, not that I expect Sonic to cheat).


She says she spoke to Sonic six months ago. They said she was in the edge of their service area, which we knew. They also said they weren't planning to expand on her area for five years, which means the Fusion service they provide that's really nice isn't an option. I suppose she could switch... We wouldn't blame her for it. But we all rather like Sonic's business practices. It's a quandary.


This is ridiculous. It shouldn't be this hard to get usable, uncapped internet in the beating heart of the tech epicenter of the world.


Oh, and she keeps all her passwords in a booklet. The hilariously named "Original Internet Address Book", that acknowledges in its first pages that search engines are making it obsolete already.


^(EDIT: a compass direction)