Life at the Cape

We are at the Cape this week with the kids and Anne's family.  I set up a rig to use neighboring wifi in the house.  What I did was:  Mount an antenna on the side of the house, and run it to an old PC.  It picks up a weak signal 4 houses down.  It drops, but is available 90% of the time.

Next, I needed to figure out how to redistribute the signal so the whole house would have it like it was our signal.  I hooked up an old dlink router to the ethernet, hoping it would "just work."  It didn't.  After fiddling around for a few hours, I went into the pref of the connection, and changed the sharing to allow the pc to share its internet- whala.... we know have high speed on the Cape.  

Of course the whole reason to get to the cape was to escape daily life.  But, I have reached a point where giving up internet access does not make me feel relaxed.  It just makes me grouchy.

There is a project under way to bring high speed access for everyone on the Cape in the next 3 years.  Until that happens, does anyone really care if I mooch a bit of wifi on vacation?  Thanks.