I haven’t wanted to spend the money to get internet service at the apartment, so I’ve been using whatever signal I can get.  Unfortunately, this results in a lot of disconnecting and extremely slow loading.  It’s getting to the point where I need to use an alternative solution, or just give up using the internet extensively while in the apartment.  My first hope is to find a nice neighbor with enough bandwidth to share their network password with me in exchange for a portion of their monthly cost.

I don’t want to have to deal with a setup cost for internet I’ll only have for a year, so I’d rather split the cost with someone who has already set it up anyway.  I just hope I have some nice neighbors who’d be willing to do this.  Roomie refuses to go ask, so I wonder if it’s an American culture thing for each unit to stay separate and not share amongst each other.  I really hope I can avoid incurring a cost that isn’t wholly necessary by making a new friend with the neighbors!  We’ll see how that goes.

It’ll be nice to finally go on Skype, watch a video, and do other things that haven’t been working for me lately.  The frustration of getting kicked off AIM just might have to be avoided by paying up, sadly.  That’s a good $200 each* if Roomie and I split a service – quite a hefty sum at the end of it all.

*clarification: for the year we’re at the apt, not per month!