<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>An interesting idea, but I don't see how to make it work. A wired
network still leaves us connected to ISPs like Comcast. A wireless mesh
network? That would produce mesh islands, not an Internet. You need a
backbone to connect them, which brings us back to companies like
Comcast. And what would the performance be like? What about security?
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