[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

"Like many of us, Andrew Greig put a WiFi access point in his house so he could share his broadband Internet connection. But like hardly any of us, Andrew uses his WiFi network for Internet, television, and telephone. He cancelled his telephone line and cable TV service. Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable TV services, too, many of them without having a wired broadband connection of their own. They get their service from Andrew, who added an inline amplifier and put a better antenna in his attic. Now most of Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with full PVR capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and downloading data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth. Is this the future of home communications and entertainment?"

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040930.html

[CD Hanks]

Unification is a great thing, but it'll suck when the line goes down.

[wdlove]

I hope that Andrew's neighbors are making a contribution for the service.