Posted by Els on 06/30/05 08:39

dorayme wrote:

>> 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.

Sounds like (2) isn't an option because of (e)(which you accidentally
named (b)) and possibly (d). (c) is indeed a good reason to think
twice about (3), but (b) is just plain arrogant :P

> Ah, maybe I will just forget about it, exult in the strength
> of making do with less.

Makes sense :-)

> Less is more...

Tell that to the person who can't get a reasonable download speed on
his Internet connection.

Oh, wait - that's you ;-)

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

Cherish the memory <g>

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