It represents only 1 ping every ten minutes, and in the space of ten minutes this DSL connection goes up and down more often than me on a good night. In the time it takes me to write a sentence this link dumps me twice; that's means either that I write very slowly, or that this connection is infinitely frustrating.
Yeah, I know, it's a free connection. All that green on the graph represents free bandwidth -- how can I possibly complain, you might ask. Well, for one thing, I am not sure it is free. Somebody could show up tomorrow and hand me a bill for $2000. Besides, I would have already found an ISP to adopt me if everything was not in flux -- i.e.: I am going to move this week, next week, next month, or the month after next, and apart from that, ISPs are dropping like flies, declaring bankruptcy and vanishing into the bit-o-sphere as fast as I can look up their phone numbers.
The problem is not the spotty connection, though. Used to be that green part of the graph was like a dense hedgerow; in it I hid. Now there's lots of splits and gaping breaches and there's not a lot of bandwidth anymore to distract me from looking at myself. You see, I don't have a TV -- right now, I don't even have a phone. I do everything here, at this screen, on this keyboard. I watch the world, I learn, I relax, I run away. But it doesn't work so good anymore.
I'm feeling kinda naked, and not in a happy sort of way.