"Think of a monastery and images of monks practising a life of prayer, peace and solitude spring to mind. So the latest in wireless broadband internet connections is probably the last thing you would imagine a monastery would need. But that is what the 15-strong community of monks at the abbey on Caldey, the island off the coast of Pembrokeshire, near Tenby, have just had installed."
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/07/31/patience-is-one-of-the-characteristics-of-monastic-life-but-even-the-patience-of-the-brothers-was-being-tested-by-our-slow-dial-up-internet-service-91466-21438224/
"An island community of monks were so fed up with their slow internet connection, they've gone broadband."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7535007.stm
Father Daniel said: "Patience is one of the characteristics of monastic life, but even the patience of the Brothers was being tested by our slow internet".
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