no worries about landlord... I own the building, tenants piggyback off my Wifi (I include it in the rent)... but they aren't around during the day (Bates students) when i'm working so they don't affect my bandwidth much.

yeah absolutely no idea why they are letting it rot. I remember going through having my street blocked for them to upgrade stuff on the poles and to pull fiber a while back so I know there is already fiber 50ft from my house on the pole. Oxford was so much better before Firstlight bought them. At that point in time I had upgraded to 150/20 DSL but when Firstlight bought them they removed that tier of service.