...That someone else in the building is providing. Turns out Earthlink doesn't provide any DSL service in our building, and the best they can do is satellite access. That's only about half the speed of a decent DSL connection. So we said no to that, and dropped our service down to dial-up. Cotemporal with this was my manager's revelation that the company would no longer ante up for broadband for me at home.

So what to do, gentle readers? What to do? I'll tell you what we did. We turned on our laptops one night at home, scanned for any open networks, found one, and never looked back.

Yeah, so we're swiping broadband from some unwitting soul who probably wonders why his or her access is so slow these days. We don't even know who it is; we only know that broadband access is like e-manna - each day we have but to try to venture out onto the net and access is there. Hee hee!