Posted by dorayme on 06/30/05 02:09

> From: Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl>

> dorayme wrote:

>> Hey, about neighbours: may I share with you the intense irritation at the
>> fellow opposite me. He was not happy with even his 1.5 MB ADSL. When he was
>> away I had to help his dad do something and I downloaded Firefox in a
>> minute or two or three (imagine that after being on dialup). O No! This
>> connection was not goddamn good enough for the son, he announced to me he
>> had a new connection now, something slightly more fancy than adsl (still on
>> copper tho) and now has 5 or 10 times faster without the former pesky 10GB
>> download limit. Yeah well! I have thought of two possibilities to deal with
>> this situation, both probably illegal. (1) Buying him a wireless router and
>> taking some of his bandwidth. (2) Killing him outright and suddenly. I
>> really would hate to do latter as he is quite a nice chap.
>
> Why not (3) Paying him a bit every month, provide the wireless, and
> share his bandwidth?
> (might still be illegal, but then you're stealing from the ISP, not
> the neighbour)
>

I sort of lean towards (2), because (a) I might as well be hung for a sheep
as a lamb, (b) going along with it is slightly undignified, he would be my
feudal lord in control of my supply, he is a kid. (c) he is clever and could
tap into my secret and astonishing communications. On the other hand he is
(d) a nice kid but (b) a huge kid, able to crush me with one hand, almost
accidentally. Ah, maybe I will just forget about it, exult in the strength
of making do with less. Less is more...

dorayme

(btw, for one brief moment in time (a day I recall), I had a more modern
mobile than this neighbour)

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