Doran L. "Fozz" Barton wrote:
> Now, someone is bound to say, "Oh! But what about poor little Sally 
> Muckenfutch who only has access to Comcast and nothing else?!" Yeah, that 
> sucks, but if Comcast sucks that bad, I'm sure other people like Sally are 
> mad 
> too. Sally and a few of her neighbors can get together and set up a local 
> ISP. 

Sounds great in theory, but hardly feasible in practice. I fear the days
of the garage ISP are long over. Well, perhaps they could set up a
wireless connection, but to get decent amounts of bandwidth requires a
fair amount of oversubscription which requires a reasonable user base.
So color me skeptical on that one.

Corey



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