Cogeco finally cut me off for mutilating my bandwidth cap and I am not happy – I can not live without my interweb tubes!  Luckily a neighbour has graciously left their AP wide open, just asking for me to join.  I looked into using Tomato to join their network and act as a wireless client, however it didn’t work as well as I’d hoped.  I needed my phones to work (since I strictly use VoIP) so I couldn’t just connect with one system, I had to latch my entire network on to theirs.

I went ahead and installed Firestarter on the laptop that got the best connection, I then installed dhcp3-server and set my eth0 static.  I started up Firestarter and shared the connection, I then plugged my eth0 into the WAN port of  my DDWRT.  VoIP calls were pretty bad until I allowed incoming traffic from my ITSP (using firestarter) however my entire network is connected and running well (without having to modify settings on my router).  I called Cogeco and my service should be re-enabled as of tonight so of course I will stop leaching at that point.  It is just nice to know that there is always a backup plan for this type of situation.