Wherever you go in Asia, there's normally an internet café within a stone's throw. And despite their simplicity the Perhentian Islands are no exception. On our beach it's housed in a hut roofed with palm fronds, and its equipped with a brand new HP computer, a generator and a well-used backup battery. But unlike the rest of Asia, where everywhere seems to be blessed with broadband, it has to cope with an antiquated radio telephone system. It hooks up to the Internet by modem, at a blistering 19,200 Baud - about 1/3 of the normal speed of a modem, or 1/30 of a basic broadband connection. And in return for this fragile, slow connection, we have to pay the most we've paid anywhere - £4 an hour. So while you sit there in your nice cool office, think of us, paying through the nose and updating the website on a steam powered computer!