[hereandnow]

My Current Situation:

I live alone and have a broad-band internet connection. A situation I know I must change if I want to give myself any chance of recovery.

I recently installed an internet filter called "Safe Eyes", put in a random administrator password that I won't remember and deleted any record of it. So the filter is always on and I can't turn it off unless I contact the maker to . Whilst it doesn't block everything, it certainly has greatly reduced access. What was a massive supply line pipe of porn to my home is now a drinking straw. But it's still a problem. I've found with restricted access I want porn even more than ever. I still find myself getting onto websites with questionable material. Soft porn. It often gets through the filter.

Accountability Issues:

Safe Eyes has an accountability feature, similar to Covenant Eyes, which reports your internet activity to an accountability partner. I would like to use this, but don't have anyone who undertands this addiction or whom I trust enough to disclose everything to. I don't feel like getting some random stranger through the net to know my online habits, and certainly nobody I know.

Possible Solution:

I must have internet access in order to live my life and do the work I do. However, I must get it out of my home whilst I live alone. I am thinking of cutting my connection, selling my desktop computer and changing to a notebook with wireless. That way, the only time I can go online will be at a public place like a Starbucks. Plus I'll install a filter and throw away the password. Being in public will force me to avoid looking at porn and being wireless, the lower rate of bandwidth will slow me down if I do try.

Has anyone else tried this strategy and did it work?

What I am afraid of is that I get the notebook computer home and discover that the apartment next door has a fast, free and open wireless network online 24/7 and I am then back at square one...