You just need to get creative and use bow and arrows or something to get high band wireless data through to your neignbors, without accidently killing their cat.

I hate web 2.0 it is what made older devices so damn slow or like our N900s almost completely useless for wb browsing. I was able to surf websites with my old Palm III over IR and Handspring Visor with an Intel wifi pod(it had its own internal battery) damnit!