I would have to agree with Tom regarding Chuck's reaction to a public, decentralized, mesh-network. I'm entirely willing to give some of my bandwidth up for free; I'm paying for it. I don't expect to make money on it. I know that there are some college students in nearby house that are probably leeching off me anyway. Failover for loss of my upstream is a very good reason to adopt community mesh-networking. If there was another person in the neighborhood willing to provide upstream, and enough people using the mesh networking protocol, should my upstream go down, we could still get out to the internet. I don't know why this would be a bad thing. Anyway, still interested in pursuing this. Chad