On Fri, 30 May 2008 at 09:24:28AM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 08:54 +0100, Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> > Alas in rural low density communities there only way to get connected
> > legally is via a BT land line. I could probably steal WiFi from the
> > neighbours most run unprotected networks but that would be naughty!
>
> You could of course step out into the big blue room and ask them?
>
> Tell them you'll provide technical support in return for a little bit of
> bandwidth, or help pay their bandwidth bill or something. What's the
> worst they can do? Say 'no' and secure their network.
It's possible, but I'd rather not touch a Windows machine unless I'm
forced. I think going without ADSL and computing for a week will make me
appreciate them even more when they finally arrives.
At least we don't get phone calls trying to sell things in the evenings
at the moment...!
--
Adam
